From Revert Henry Klumb to Guilherme Antonio dos Santos: Rio de Janeiro city in 100 years of stereoscopic photography in Brazil (1850-1950)

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the history of stereoscopy and its development in Brazil, conducted by the professional and amateur photographers who used the technique to represent the city of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s until the 1950s. Invented in the United Kingdom in the 1830s and commercially distributed by the 1850s, the stereoscope was one of the most popular ways of viewing photographic images between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Considering the technique in its specificities, we seek to understand how stereoscopy acted in the education of the gaze of Brazilian observers.

Keywords

• estereoscopia
• fotografia estereoscópica
• rio de janeiro