Artists used the device for inspiration. Charlie Chaplin was casting about unsuccessfully for an idea for his next film, when he peered at stereographs of the Yukon. “This was a wonderful theme ...

The Met’s selection—from a private collection amassed by the American photography dealer William L. Schaeffer, and now a ...

In the late 1800s, the stereograph — sometimes incorrectly called a stereopticon — was a big craze. You’d view two side-by-side images through some lenses and see a three-dimensional image.

The stereograph, a medium largely forgotten by time, used to be a popular way to make images and photographs more entertaining and dynamic. Stereograph cards such as this utilize two images with ...

Find out more about what this space is all about here. These mildly provocative stereographs were marketed for parlor use in the late 19th century. Used with a stereoscope, the side-by-side ...

In its push to reinvent itself in the Web era, the New York Public Library releases the Stereogranimator, a tool that lets users create flickering 3D GIFs from its archive of "stereographs.