Word: stereopticon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunt, the result of 13 years' research, constitutes the latest effort to translate the real world of three dimensions into the picture world of two. Artists have employed trompe I'oeil three-dimensional techniques for centuries. But true success for photographers awaited the invention of the stereopticon camera in the 19th century, which took two pictures of the same subject through lenses that were separated like a pair of human eyes. When the viewer saw each picture separately, through separate lenses, his brain automatically supplied the missing dimension of depth...
There has not been anything quite like it since the stereopticon delighted the nation's tasseled parlors with its "magic" ability to make the two-dimensional seem three-dimensional. After a sluggish start in 1958, stereophonic music has finally begun to catch the ear and the purse strings of the U.S. This year's sales of stereo phonographs are nearly double last year's (1,423,179 for 1960 to date; 757,710 for 1959) and stand at more than three times those of standard players (438,011 for the year of date). Fresh labels are flowing...