Dr Brain May lends rare Victorian 3D photographs to Tate Britain. The photographs are displayed in 'Poor man's picture gallery': Victorian Art and Stereoscopic. The photographs are the hand coloured photographic equivalents of famous Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the 1850s and 1860s. Stereographs are made up of two photographs of the same scene taken from very slight different viewpoints, these images are then mounted side by side and viewed through a stereoscope, so that when the viewer looks through they just see one three-dimensional image.
I found this exhibition interesting as it's the first time the original Victorian paintings have been shown alongside the hand coloured photographs. Within my own practice I am looking at how people don't always believe what they see on the news because it is just seen as an image on a T.V screen however they could react differently if the event took place right in front of them. I want to stage events that are happening in the news at the moment almost like a flash mob to catch a big reaction from the crowds and photograph and video reactions. However once I then take the photographs it's going to be a case of the viewers then becoming immune to the images, therefore I would like to try and make my photographs 3D so that the photograph seems realistic.
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