The Art of Stereography: Rediscovering Vintage Three-Dimensional Images

This book explores how compelling images were made by carefully combining subject matter, composition, lighting, tonality, blocking and depth. It draws upon the fine arts, the mass media, humanities, history, and even geology. Throughout, overlooked photographers are celebrated, such as the one who found extraordinary visual parallels within nature, anticipating Cezanne and Seurat--or the one who refused to play favorites during a bitter war and found humanity on both sides--or the one who took a favorite American glen and found menace all about.

Stereographers were actually more like film directors or television producers than large format photographers: the best ones fused artistry with commercial appeal.