crystal palace - critical studies

Hunter and Sands stereo camera, around 1880.
The stereo camera above was used to create stereo-daguerreotypes, which when viewed through a viewer, would create a 3d illusion. The dauguerrotype was an early photographic process which created an unique image which could not be reproduced, either positive or negative image depending on how light hit the sensitised surface.











Hand coloured stereo-daguerreotype, John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901)