.Stereoscopy Photographs.
Stereoscopy refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image.
The technique achieves this by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer.
Both of these 2-D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of depth. These images are stereoscopic in concept only.
Words and Photographs by Timothy Archibald
Speak To Me
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A: You know, it’s Trompe-l’œil, French for “deceive the eye”. It’s that technique involving realistic imagery in order to create this optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
Q: Oh, right. You think it’s working here?
A: Yeah, for sure. But the kids aren’t fooled for a minute.
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A: It’s really all about gravity. Gravity is all around us like air. Adults never even notice it, but kids do. It pulls them to the earth, to the lowest point, like water always running to the point of least resistance.
Q: Another law of nature?
A: Yeah, totally.
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Q: Well, is this like some type of re-photographic survey, where photographers go back to important places and photograph that place from the same position to show how time has changed things, or left things the same?
A: Wow, I guess you could compare it to that. It’s like the nature keeps growing and cycling through the seasons but the people, the kids, the adults are just shifting through. Another kid will squirt a squirt gun here…
Q: But the same flowers will keep growing?
A: Yeah, exactly.
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Q: Can you tell me that story about the light again?
A: Sure. So we walked into the hotel room in the dark and flicked on the light. Unfortunately it was filled with cockroaches…they were really everywhere, all over everything, in every corner and fold. In the light they run and hide and the room looks great, but I’ve already seen them. I can’t un-see them. I know they are there, everyone does, and we can’t really forget and just fall asleep.
Q: So what do you do?
A: Oh we had to leave and sleep in the car. Whether it was dark or light, they were always there.
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Q: So what is so fascinating about that tree to you?
A: Nothing really. It’s just always been there. Kinda classic looking, kinda stately, kinda timeless.
Q: You know it’s dead right? It’s not going to blossom again, it’s just going to stay like that. That is as far as it’s going to go.
A: Oh, I didn’t think about that. I guess you’re right, but it’s hard to imagine walking by and it not being right there.
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This Is That Magazine, Spring 2012, 166 pages
Edited by Kate Osba. Featuring Fiona Aboud, Timothy Archibald, Philip Cheung, Sam Comen, Robyn Twomey and Reed Young.
Design by Jennifer Cogliantry
Featuring Stereoscopy Photographs sixteen page portfolio and interview.
Buy it HERE.
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Q: Back home now?
A: Yep, here we are. I was talking to a friend and her theory was that once you start investigating family, in your writing or your photography, it changes the way you see everything. Once you dig deep into family, it always shows up in your work. It changes everything.
Q: Do you believe that?
A: Now I do, for sure.
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A Letter
Hello Timothy ~
Just thought I might dash off a few first thoughts about the stuff you are putting on your Tumblr Stereoscopy.
I was quite struck by the first ones you posted, the ones of ur kids. There is so much whimsy in them, as well as a slight mind-fuck and some vague reference to photo history and even a few other threads I can’t pin down.
A very interesting continuation of your work with your kids and
about growing up, or something.When you posted the ones of your dad I thought that they looked too preordained,
stiff. They lacked the overt whimsy of the earlier ones. Seemed, to me, to be the work
of a commercial photographer.Then today I saw the one of yer mom and, while it still seemed pre-visualized and
sort of static (like the ones of your dad) there was some echoing in it of the ones of
your kids.The kid ones look organic, like you weren’t even trying. The parent ones look like
you were (trying).It’s just a feeling.
Now, could be that that’s what you want to do, to show the difference between the young
and the old. Or it could be that these reflect, somehow, your relationships with the
folks you are picturing. But it’s probably a combo of both those things and a hundred
other things as well.As usual, I’ll leave the nuance to you. Like I said (and as typical) these are just
hammered out before dinner (damn, I’d better get the rice on) thoughts.One way or the other, though, I’m digging who you are and what you’re in to.
Best regards.
XXXXX
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“Mom At The Kitchen Table, Schenectady, N.Y. 2012”
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“Dad In The Basement Stairway, Schenectady, N.Y. 2012”
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