THOMAS RUFF

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Stereophotos

2000
Stereo photographs, which appear to be three-dimensional when viewed with each eye, are made with two photographs that are shot from slightly different angles. The technology emerged in the 1840s not long after the invention of photography. If a three-dimensional quality that did not exist in the original photograph emerges when the viewer looks at the images with each eye, something is occurring in the brain. Ruff, who had developed an interest in stereo photography as a visual device, shot two pictures by careful measuring the angles to produce an ideal three-dimensional effect. He also made a special box equipped with a mirror to display their stereo qualities.