Showing posts with label stereoscope camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stereoscope camera. Show all posts

Monday, 19 September 2011

photography video in the 1806-1880s - civil war cameras

This video + wet plate camera, ties in with the wet plate collodian process, I have posted above.  Cheers Sue


http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ADJwAGuEnxo

Curator of Technology Todd Gustavson discusses two examples of Civil War-era cameras- a stereo camera and the Lewis wet-plate camera. From the exhibition "Between the States"
stereoscope camera used by Matthew Brady who took it upon himself to photograph the Civil War, funded at his own expense