PR-065-803-14While not part of the stereograph collection, it is worth noting that Brady is also well known for photographing Abraham Lincoln for the first time in New York City before Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech.
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The portable darkroom wagon is visible in some of the stereographs as well as the photographers themselves.Our artist at Manassas, 4th July, 1862. PR-065-802-5The photographers used portable darkrooms to develop the photographs on location. Many of the stereographs in N-YHS’s newly available collection are attributed to Brady’s company.McLean’s House, Where Lee Surrendered. It is probable that “Mathew Brady did not take a single Civil War photograph,” instead employing “at his own expense, skilled photographers, the number varying from time to time from eight to twenty, commonly traveling in teams of two or three” (Darrah, 1964, 63). At the outset of the Civil War, Brady was operating a photography studio in Washington, D.C., making his company ideally located to capture the war that was occurring just to the south in Virginia. Morse, who is known for pioneering daguerreotype photography in America, developing the telegraph, and creating Morse code. Brady had studied daguerreotype photography under Samuel F.B. The individual primarily credited with this historical documentation is Mathew B. All pictures in which perspective and light and shade are properly managed, have more or less of the effect of solidity but by this instrument that effect is so heightened as to produce an appearance of reality which cheats the senses with its seeming truth” (Holmes, 1859).Holmes Stereoscope By User Davepape on en.wikipedia (Photo by Davepape), via Wikimedia Commons Two years after this description, the Civil War began and became one of the first wars to be captured with photography. Holmes described the stereoscopic viewer as “an instrument which makes surfaces look solid. As Holmes chose not to patent this viewer, it was widely copied and remained popular for several decades. In 1861, Holmes improved on the design of the handheld stereoscopic viewer “by adding a sliding card holder and a hood to shield the eyes from extraneous light” (Darrah, 1977, 2). The term stereograph was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of the Supreme Court Justice of the same name, in an 1859 article published in the Atlantic Monthly titled “The Stereoscope and the Stereograph” (Holmes, 1859). Lenses are used in stereoscopic viewers to magnify the photos and trick the eye into perceiving them as a single, three dimensional image.At the time of the Civil War (1861-1865), the stereograph was a relatively new technology, having been invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838. The stereoscope viewing device mimics the natural process of three dimensional sight by providing each eye with a photograph of a single object or scene captured from two slightly different perspectives.
Early stereographic photos were created using angled mirrors to capture two photographs, moving a camera by a few inches between photographs, or by simultaneously using two cameras placed a few inches apart.
Humans naturally perceive depth (the third dimension) by combining two slightly offset images of the world separated by a few inches. Civil War have recently been made accessible online.A stereograph is a combination of two photographs, usually placed side by side on cardstock, which create a three dimensional image when viewed with a stereoscope device. As part of the New-York Historical Society’s ongoing effort to make the Civil War Treasures Collection available digitally, more than 700 stereographs of the U.S. Klingenstein Library.While 3D technology is now most associated with big-budget movies, 3D imagery is not a new concept. VisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShop Join & Give Host an Event Shop Dine Admission Tickets Augin From the StacksCivil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical SocietyThis post is by Alex Japha, Digital Preservation Intern in the Patricia D. CensusMembershipFAQsMuseum & Store Hours: 11 am – 5 pm Library Hours: 10 am – 4:30 pm Join & GiveHost an EventShopDineAdmission TicketsAdmission TicketsSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S.
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