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"The first effect
of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no
painting ever produced. The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture.
The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would
scratch our eyes out. The elbow of a figure stands forth so as to make us almost
uncomfortable. Then there is such a frightful amount of detail, that we have the
same sense of infinite complexity which Nature gives us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Inventor of Holmes Stereoscope)
The Age of Photography
June 1859
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