Joshua Heineman started an interesting project called Reaching for the Out of Reach. The basic idea is to bring new life and a new audience to interesting works of our past. He’s using the New York Public Library website as his source for digging up digitized stereographs and quickly alternating between the two images, simulating the illusion of looking through stereoscope. The way a stereograph works is simple: simultaneously look at two slightly different images and your brain will give the sense of depth. A stereograph isolates each photo to an eye, but flipping between also seems to work. Here are two of my favorites. The rest are found on this website.
