As regular readers will know, Brian May is a passionate evangelist for stereoscopic photography, and has been since Queen broke through in the 1970s. Forget chucking tellies out of hotel windows – as he happily recalls, ‘I did a mixture of things when we were on the road, but one of the things I generally did when getting off a plane in a new city was to go and find the local sources of stereoscopic material. It sounds very geeky but it kept me happy!’
The latest book from Brian’s London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) is called Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3D, and is a collection of ‘stereo’ pictures taken by people all over the world throughout the pandemic. There are some fantastic images in the book as you can see here (they are best viewed with Brian’s Owl viewer, available from www.londonstereo.com).
One vision
First of all, we wondered if Brian was surprised by the huge response when LSC first put out the call on social media for images taken during the lockdowns. ‘To be honest, yes, I didn’t realise how far the message had got. As I say in the introduction to the book, this is a
