(accidental parallax) Nodding Professor Odlum, c.a. 1865
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Details and History
The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This portrait of Professor Odlum was constructed from two separate images. Slow photography of the time necessitated staging a pose and holding it for several seconds to avoid blurring. This portrait is an example of accidental parallax arising from redundant exposures with unintentional camera movement and subject repositioning between. The effect is similar to the cha-cha method of making stereo pairs but the axis of maximal parallax is not horizontal. The photographer is likely Mathew B. Brady or his apprentice Levin C. Handy.
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The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from the Library of Congress website, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original images have no known restrictions on use:
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Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
(accidental parallax) Nodding Professor Odlum, c.a. 1865
To see the animated image source scroll down to the first comment below or right click and view original size.
Details and History
The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This portrait of Professor Odlum was constructed from two separate images. Slow photography of the time necessitated staging a pose and holding it for several seconds to avoid blurring. This portrait is an example of accidental parallax arising from redundant exposures with unintentional camera movement and subject repositioning between. The effect is similar to the cha-cha method of making stereo pairs but the axis of maximal parallax is not horizontal. The photographer is likely Mathew B. Brady or his apprentice Levin C. Handy.
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Quick Links to related Animated Stereo Images
Images by Mathew Brady.
Browse the 19th century or by decade: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s.
Browse the 20th century or by decade: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s.
Copyright Advisory
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from the Library of Congress website, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original images have no known restrictions on use:
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003001514/PP/
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.