[photo-3d] Re: 3D is the image

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>   Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 13:24:13 -0800
>   From: Ray Zone <r3dzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
>As Stan White has said:  "The stereo image must never be considered an
>adjunct to the planar photograph, for the essential difference is
>qualitative not quantitative."
...
>[Stan White:] "To consider 3-D imaging as a mere secondary, adjunct to 2-D
>>imaging is simplistic and does an injustice to 3-D.  Stereoscopic imaging
>
>is an entirely new visual language requiring continual reinvention. The
>stereoscopic image supercedes monocular art with new standards and
>aesthetics, an inherent and distinct visual vocabulary based upon binocular
>perception."

Thank you Ray for this interesting quotation.

This is something of which I have been intuitively aware for some time, but
have only recently started to address explicitly with my own imagemaking:
that stereoscopic art functions on both eyes simultaneously AND
independently.

Inspired in part by my own fortuitous experiences with odd stereo pairs
(i.e. photo accidents), the images of Hans Knuchel and Steve Aubrey, and an
interesting article by Roger Ferragallo, I am now experimenting with
retinal rivalry perception effects, which are by definition uniquely
stereoscopic.   One is color rivalry (where homologous features are
presented with non-matching colors), which can create color vibrancy,
luster, and iridescence.  Another is motion rivalry (specifically vertical
disparity), which can lend the illusion of actual motion to an otherwise
static image.

More fully realized stereoscopic _art_ is to ortho-stereoscopic photography
as stereophonic music is to binaural recording.  The former plays with a
full range of effects that are uniquely enabled by the binocular (binaural)
human perception - even beyond what may be seen (or heard) in nature.  The
latter simply records and reproduces realistically what is perceived in
nature - without extensive image post processing (audio mixing).

Look at how far stereophonic sound and music production has come since the
days of Edison, and you will see how far stereoscopic art has yet to go!
The field is wide open, unexplored, and very exciting to me.

Boris



P.S.

Ferragallo's article is here: http://www.ferragallo.com/newmanifesto.html

Oleg Vorobyoff wrote: "I'm finding good 3D photographic situations every
bit as rare as with 2D."

Boris replies: I am finding good 3D to be even more difficult to find than
good 2D.  Then again, I'm just a novice photographer who has done very
little 2D work.

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