Paris in 3D

From Stereoscopy to Virtual Reality 1850-2000

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

Published Oct. 1, 2000 by Booth-Clibborn.

ISBN:
978-1-86154-162-8
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OCLC Number:
45688427

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4 stars (1 review)

1 edition

A poor start, an excellent middle and a mediocre end.

4 stars

Once you get over the hurdle of the first three annoying academic essays, everything that follows is pretty darn good. Overall, it's a decent history of three-dimensional imagery seen through the lens of its relationship to the city of Paris.

It's wildly inconsistent in its ways of reproducing 3D images -- some of the side-by-side images are reproduced at roughly the size they appeared on the original stereocards, while others are postage-stamp size. The anaglyphs (red/blue filtered images) work well on the black and white photos, and (as usual) poorly on the color pictures.

I've knocked one point off a 5-star rating for the the pure academic hogwash at the beginning (if you make an effort to untangle the syntax, you may learn... absolutely nothing) and a few of the pretentious artists' statements at the end.

Subjects

  • European history: c 1750 to c 1900
  • European history: from c 1900 -
  • Special kinds of photography
  • Techniques - General
  • Photography As An Art
  • Photography
  • Photo Essays
  • France
  • Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
  • Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Europe
  • Photography / General
  • Europe - France

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