ABSTRACT
Photography belongs to a lineage of representation techniques inspired by, and supporting, observation with a single eye, such as the camera obscura and linear perspective. Stereoscopy, on the other hand, connotes binocular vision and consists of a pair of complementary photographic images, taken from two points separated by a distance relative to the one between the two eyes. When viewed simultaneously through a stereoscopic apparatus, the two images merge to form a single visual sensation adding an extra dimension of depth, which is absent from a single photograph. Stereoscopy, therefore, suggests an opening up, an unfolding of visual space, a ‘blossoming’ out of the at plane of the single photograph.
