Providing information about the wonderful world of stereoscopy. We endeavour to provide a standard for identifying and appreciating these beautiful images.
The London Stereoscope (later ‘Stereoscopic’) Company was founded in 1854 to photograph, manufacture, and sell stereo views and viewers to a public enthralled by all things 3-D. Ten years later, the craze had subsided, and following a series of diversifications which kept it afloat, by the start of 1922 the company was dissolved. See The History of the LSC.
I acquired the shell of the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) in 2005 with the aim of resurrecting it and sharing the joys of stereoscopy (3-D) with the world. Our mission would remain the same as it had been back in the 1850s ‘A Stereoscope in every Home’.
Nearly twenty years on, the LSC has grown into a successful international publishing company, issuing books and card sets of historic Victorian stereos from my collection, modern stereoscopic compilations, a range of 3-D space and astronomy titles, and the book I wrote about Queen featuring stereo photographs I have taken ever since the early 1970s when we initially got together. All this is supported by a wide range of the stereoscopes I designed to view the stereo photographs. We call them OWLs !
We have sold hundreds of thousands of our products, and our books have been translated into many languages ! In 2023, I passed my archive of more than 200,000 stereo photographs to the Nation as part of what is now known as the ‘Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy’ (BMAS), thus creating a permanent independent national centre of excellence for the study of stereoscopy. BMAS shares our research findings, provides information and gives talks, and sets a standard for identifying and appreciating these beautiful images.
I hope you will get as much enjoyment as I have from the magical world of stereoscopy – our books, cards and viewers await you, and we also offer advice on how to take pictures yourself. Please do keep up to date with the latest releases by the LSC by becoming a friend of the LSC. And let us know what you think of our wares by leaving a review in our online shop !
A THRILLING, FIRST EVER, STEREOSCOPIC (3-D) EXPLORATION OF THE MOST HAZARDOUS ASTEROID - BENNU.Bennu is the most dangerous asteroid in the Solar System and there is a real chance that it might strike the Earth in 2182.In 2020 NASA's OSIRISREx mission landed a spacecraft on Bennu and collected material from the surface for return to Ea
The London Stereoscopic Company has teamed up with Space.com to offer you the chance to win a copy Brian May's latest publication - Bennu 3-D - accompanied by a special bookplate signed by Brian and co-author / leader of NASA’s O
