![]() ![]() Yes it was! It started out with Weetabix packets. Is this fascination with stereoscopy something that began in childhood? ![]() ![]() The three authors are due to give a talk at the British Library on 30 October, where they will sign copies of the book. As a consequence, May, who has held a lifelong passion for stereoscopic imagery, has set about designing his own 3D viewer - a pair of plastic spectacles known as the OWL – a pair are given away with the book. These stereo cards are best viewed in 3D. The monster hardback tome collects together a series of diableries ('devilments') – photographs of ghoulish 'stereo' cards featuring devils, skeletons and satrys, originally printed in France in the 1860s. For his latest project, Queen guitarist, astrophysicist and friend of the badgers Brian May has teamed up with two photographic historians Denis Pellerin and Paula Fleming to author a new book, Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell. ![]()
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