![]() ![]() ![]() But from around 1860 to 1900, a fascinating series of cards were produced under the name ‘Diableries’. Most stereoscopic images were scenes of reality – public parades, the celebrities of the day, newsworthy moments and, of course, saucy images of naked women. Thus was born the intermittently popular 3D boom, one that has developed in technique and style over the subsequent two centuries, but which is essentially aimed at the same result – a sense of depth and wonder for visual images normally seen ‘flat’. Once your eyes had adjusted – anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the individual – you would see the photograph in startling three dimensions, with depth and realism. Stereoscopy involved two images, printed side by side, and looked at through a special viewer. In the mid-1800s, a new craze based around the recently invented art of photography. The Devilishly playful images of Hell, damnation and Satan at play that delighted France and England in the Victorian age. ![]()
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