Apparaat om stereofoto's te maken before 1901

This page from a book by Adolphe Louis Donnadieu shows an early stereoscopic camera and explains its features. Imagine Donnadieu, surrounded by the scents of darkroom chemicals, hunched over his desk, meticulously drafting the schematics of this apparatus. He's probably thinking about how to make 3D images, something that must have seemed like magic back then. You know, what strikes me is how much innovation comes from artists tinkering, trying things out. Like in painting, it's about layering, adjusting, failing, and then, sometimes, stumbling upon something amazing. I bet Donnadieu faced similar frustrations and breakthroughs as he worked on this camera. His diagram reminds me that all art forms—painting, photography, whatever—are just different ways of capturing and playing with our perceptions. We're constantly borrowing, remixing, and riffing off of each other's ideas, building on the conversations of artists who came before us. It's a messy, beautiful, ongoing experiment.