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tHE vIRTUAL gALLERY pRESENTS
J a c k B i c e
Stereographic Art
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Click images to see the enlarged stereo pairs for viewing.
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Artist's Notes
The images above are examples of stereographic art and techniques from a life-long repertoire. The most primitive in the collection date from 1941, age seventeen. They are photos created with two small, Ansco box cameras strapped together. The next year I was using a beam-splitting device mounted before my camera lens - a contrivance I had invented and built from masonite and hand-mirrors from Woolworths. (Years later, after the War, such a design was being commercially marketed - perhaps it was an old invention.) -jb
You are invited to look into these works three-dimensionally by
using the easy trick of crossing your eyes on the enlarged pairs -
which are only a click away, behind the small thumb-nail images.
If you don't know how to do this, click here for easy instructions and a stereographic slideshow, or read below . . .
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1. Sit squarely in front of the images - neither above nor below, and not to either side. Keep your head and eyes level.
2. Cross your eyes until the two images have spread to become three.
3. Look at the middle image, which is a stereoptic fusion of the original two. It will appear to be 3-dimensional. (Ignore the two side images.)
(If you find this to be very difficult, you might try poising your index finger vertically about 8 or 10 inches in front of your eyes, lined up with the center of the screen, then focus on your finger-tip. That should automatically create three images, the middle of which you can begin to see behind the finger. Wean your attention from the finger to the center image; then remove your hand from view and enjoy the scene.)
To other stereoptic works from mid-career as an artist;
and to later and recent works.
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