History of Photography: Keystone View Company Stereoview of the Great Wall of China
1885ref. 141101885. Keystone View Company. The Great Wall of China undated records one of China's most recognizable historic landscapes through the stereographic medium and supports study of photography international tourism imagery geographic education and American visual encounters with China. Stereographs paired two nearly identical images to create the illusion of three dimensional depth when viewed through a stereoscope and they became an important means through which American audiences encountered distant places during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Library of Congress notes that stereographs were widely collected for views of tourist sites and locations viewers might never visit themselves while also serving as classroom educational tools. Keystone View Company. The Great Wall of China. Meadville Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company undated. Stereoview presenting paired photographic views of the Great Wall of China for stereoscopic viewing; dimensions are not supplied in the present description. Keystone was among the major American publishers of stereographs operating from 1892 into the twentieth century and marketing views both for popular entertainment and education. The Library of Congress holds a Keystone View Company stereograph of the Great Wall dated between 1934 and 1946 demonstrating that the company continued to circulate imagery of the monument well into the twentieth century; without identifying information from the present card however that date range cannot safely be assigned to this example. The stereoview belongs to a photographic culture in which distant architecture landscapes and peoples were organized into commercially distributed visual tours allowing viewers to experience foreign sites through the immersive effect of the stereoscope. Keystone became especially important within this market as competing stereograph publishers declined and by the mid to late 1920s it was the principal remaining producer of conventional card mounted stereographs. As a view of the Great Wall the card provides material evidence for the circulation of images of China within American geographic and educational culture rather than documentation of a specific historical event at the site. In very good condition. A well preserved example of Keystone's international stereographic imagery connecting the history of photography with the visual interpretation of China for American audiences. unknown books
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