The 19th Century Craze for Stereoscopic Photography - Ian Christie

0:00 // Introduction & Lecture Overview 1:15 // The Guitar Arrives from France and Italy 2:30 // Italian Musicians at the Stuart Court 3:45 // The Five-Course Guitar: Construction and Tuning 5:00 // Strumming vs. Plucking Technique 6:15 // Tablature, Manuscripts, and Sources 7:30 // Who Played the Guitar at Court? 8:45 // The Guitar and Dancing 10:00 // Court Masques and Musical Performance 11:15 // The Guitar and the English Civil War 12:30 // Ralph Verney: Guitar in Exile in France 13:45 // French Musical Influence Under Charles I 15:00 // Conclusion & Summary Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience, making this the form in which most people first encountered photography a fact largely ignored in conventional photographic history. Like the commercial suppliers of Magic Lantern slides, stereograph publishers offered systematic coverage of many subjects, even claiming that to visit remote countries by stereo was better than risking the journey. This event was on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 Professor Christie is former Visiting Professor in the History of Film and Media at Gresham College. He is a renowned British film scholar and currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an... Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/ Website: https://gresham.ac.uk Twitter:   / greshamcollege   Facebook:   / greshamcollege   Instagram:   / greshamcollege