Review: Just Like Being There: A Collection of Stereo Photography/Loyola University Museum of Art

Great Sphinx at Gizeh, the Largest Royal Portrait ever Hewn, Egypt, Keystone View Company, ca. 1900

RECOMMENDED

Back in the nineteenth-century, in the days before video, people could tickle their visual fancy by putting on 3-D glasses and peering into two slightly different photos of the same subject placed side by side that—with a practiced squint—would merge into one image that simulated depth perception. Fascinated by the stereograph, James Jensen has avidly collected these commercial wonders, and now we can share in what one young viewer called a “trippy” experience (glasses are provided). Once you get the hang of it, you will be addicted for a while, intrigued by the way postcard-type pictures morph into scenes that you are forced to inhabit. You will not need LSD to be carried away into the Kilburn Brothers’ studies of frost, which pop out at you and suspend you in the proverbial psychedelic moment—at least for a few seconds. (Michael Weinstein)

Through March 15 at Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N. Michigan.

When Private Art Becomes Public: A Visit to the 21c Museum Hotel Collection 21c is one of the largest contemporary art museums in the United States and the only one in North America dedicated solely to collecting twenty-first century art.
Memory Connections: A Review of “Beyond the Frame” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography In this remarkable survey of images from the vast and overarching collection of the MoCP, the last hundred and fifty or so years in the history of photography are spread like a banquet before the viewer.
$Remixing the Past: A Review of “Refracting Histories” at Museum of Contemporary Photography$
Remixing the Past: A Review of “Refracting Histories” at Museum of Contemporary Photography An exhibition that aims to re-examine historical photography and its implications in modern society. The eight artists examine in critical detail the meanings and expressions of earlier photographers.
Architectural Legacies Toppled: A Review of Shannon Bool 1:1 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Bool's hugely nuanced, deeply philosophical works capture the viewer in a net of intrigue and fascination, and her social commentary is by turns amusing and deeply revealing.
Reading Images: Curator Kristin Taylor Discusses "Beyond the Frame" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography As technologies change and our lives become more entrenched in photographs, it is increasingly important to understand how to read images.
Fact v. Fiction: A Review of “Alice” and “Lincoln” at Perspective Fine Art Photography Gallery Julie Cowan’s “Lincoln” draws on historical documents and facts, Julie Meridian relies on the fantasy elements of “Alice in Wonderland,” yet both artists push the boundaries of their individual telling.

Review: Just Like Being There: A Collection of Stereo Photography/Loyola University Museum of Art

Related Stories

OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE: CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

GET A COPY

SUBSCRIBE