Photo Stereo Synthesis

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Posted On: January 14 2009

By: Joan Hill

Awhile back, a friend of mine was sharing some amazing 3-D images that he'd acquired over the years. Some of them were double images, to be viewed with colored glasses or glass lens stereo viewers. One was an 8" cube, lit from within, and filled with a dozen or so plates of glass, each containing the same photographic image, but with different planes of focus, thus creating an astounding stereo effect.

After some research, he discovered they were likely based on the work of the multi-talented Lumiere Brothers, from Lyon, France (in photo, a wiki commons image), both, as was their father, true pioneers of photography and cinematic photography.

The name of the artist is not known, as the item was a gift from a friend, who had "found" it in a store room at his art school. Web searches proved fairly fruitless, although it does appear that there is an artist making similar pieces in England, known as shardcore (there is a rumor that this artist is a former cast member of "Real World: London!), but it is doubtful that this is his work. shardcore's work, which exists "at the intersection of art and science" is, however, worth a look. His photo stereo synthesis cubes look gorgeous!

Flickr has dozens of stereo groups, however, there is no mention of this sort of work that I could find. I believe that these circumstances are what is sometimes called "a mystery wrapped in an enigma". I cannot even show you a photograph of his cube, because the last time that we spoke, the cube was destroyed during his last move. My interest is definitely piqued.

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