One of my projects as a Planet Labs Artist in Residence is going to be commemorative portrait drawings of people that inspired others to push things far enough so that we have the ability to take photos of the whole planet from space. The first set in the series will be those that pioneered imaging of the planet in new and strange ways.
Read MoreEmperor Norton in "Views of the Pacific Coast", 1968 by HELIOS aka Ewd. J Muybridge.
Emperor Norton Stereograph
For my residency at Planet Labs, I'm researching the early history of photography, specifically aerial and sequential photography. That led me to a library book on Eadweard Muybridge. The book explains Muybridge's experiments with stereographs.
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