Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell (3d Stereoscopic Book) - Hardcover

Brian May; Denis Pellerin; Paula Richardson Fleming

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0957424604 ISBN 13: 9780957424609

Publisher: London Stereoscopic Company, The, 2013

Synopsis

This first edition is no longer available. It is being replaced by an updated second edition to be released in October 2019. A devilish 1860s sensation - finally unleashed on the 21st century! In France, around 1860, from the loins of a traditional national fascination with all things diabolical, was born a new sensation - a series of visionary dioramas depicting life in a strange parallel universe called ENFER - Hell - communicated to an eager audience by means of stereoscopic cards, to be viewed in the stereoscopes which had already become popular in the 1850s. This 3-D phenomenon, which fascinated a nation for 40 years, is now yours to share. This book, the fruit of half a lifetime's study by three impassioned authors, brings every one of the published Diableries into the 21st century for the very first time. Some of them are so rare that at the time of writing there is no known complete collection of the originals of these masterpieces. But this book enables all but two of the 182 scenes to be enjoyed just as their creators intended, in magnificent 3-D, using the high-quality patent OWL stereoscopic viewer supplied.

About this title

Review:

Picture Book of the Week. --New Statesman

A painstakingly researched history of the satirical and politically charged 3D postcards produced in France throughout the 1850s. --Mojo

A fascinating collection of stereo cards. --Digital Camera

About the Author:

Brian May, CBE, PhD, FRAS is a founding member of Queen, a world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer. Stereoscopy has been a life-long passion for Brian, and the first book he wrote on Victorian stereo photography, co-authored with Elena Vidal, and called A Village Lost and Found, was very successful. Denis Pellerin has been a teacher for over 30 years and interested in photography since the age of ten. He was bitten by the stereo bug in the 1980s, has been fascinated by Diableries for over 25 years and has written several books and articles on 19th century sterephotography for various magazines, institutions and museums. He graduated as an MA in Art History at the Sorbonne in 1999 and has since been specialising in French and British Victorian genre stereoviews. Paula Richardson Fleming is a Photographic Historian with a special interest in stereo photography. She is the retired Photo Archivist of the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives, and a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the National Stereoscopic Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: London Stereoscopic Company, The
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0957424604
• ISBN 13: 9780957424609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240