| New York City in 3D: A Look Back in Time: With Built-in Stereoscope Viewer - Your Glasses to the Past! |  | Creator: Greg Dinkins
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 107,187
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0760337225
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780760337226
ASIN: 0760337225
Publication Date: October 2, 2009
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Product Description
Old New York lives and breathes once again in these rare original three-dimensional photographs, showing the city we love at its nostalgic best. Here are the first skyscrapers, the old street markets, the wharves, street cars and elevated trains, and our New York ancestors at work and play.
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 time capsule May 9, 2010
Wolf Diesing (Bavaria, Germany)
Let me quote the response of a native NewYorker, who received this book as a gift:
"Thanks for the great New York City Stereo Look Back album. The postman delivered it yesterday, and as today is dreary and rainy, a good 'stay indoors day' this morning was ideal to view and carefully study details of each photo. I enjoyed the photos especially since after graduating from high school in January 1949, I took a job in the financial area of Manhattan (site of many of the photos), and was able to relate with the locations, and some of the buildings. Thanks again for your thought. But tell me, how in the world did you come across the album?"
Actually I found it next to other stereo view books by googleing stereo photos. Knowing some of the photo sites from occasional visits, it was fascinating to see the amazing vintage photo quality and the 3D effects with some dramatic views. The explanatory comments were a perfect crash course in American history and the early advanced bridge and building construction technology in those days. Being a stereo card collector myself I can appreciate the reproduction quality and the integrated flap-lens stereo viewer that comes with it. I think this integrated concept is a great idea and even the kids enjoy history this way a lot more compared to text books (especially with the current 3D media hype). However the printing resolution has potential for improvement and the heavy and bulky glass lenses of the flap-type viewer could be replaced by paper-flat and light-weight plastic Fresnel magnifier lenses that would even fit inside a paperback format version to reduce production cost.
5 stars worth anyhow as well as for: London in 3D: A Look Back in Time: With Built-in Stereoscope Viewer-Your Glasses to the Past! and Brian May's A Village Lost and Found that comes with a detachable folding 3D viewer and compares Victorian courtyside stereo card photos with contemporary colour stereo views of the re-identified original sites
(As a hint for AMAZON's "LOOK INSIDE" feature and eventually for other viewerless print versions: it is possible to view stereo photos in 3D also on screen without stereo viewers, if the right and left photos are exchanged for bare cross-eyed view - impressive examples can be found on the web.)
 Fine Book - But... March 12, 2010
CARL DIDONATO (Hamilton, NJ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book and viewer page - great concept! Cover pic. should have been included in the book. All pics. should have been dated. Some selections could have been better. Four pics. very little 3D:Woolworth Bldg. - St. Paul's Chapel - Barnum Museum after fire - Grand Central Depot. Five pics. no 3D at all: Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island - Free Reading Room - Bathers at Coney Island - Liesurely Group in Central Park - Limited Express in Central Park. One pic. reversed 3D - Metropolitan Fair on 14th St. I still like the book and will consider purchasing others. Proofing and editing must be better.
Living history for an excellent price January 1, 2010
C. Wilson (California)
All of the books in this series are great. As a stereocard maker and enthusiast, I was excited about the release of these books.
Good points: Excellent price! Excellent construction with the fold out viewer in the cover and excellent graphics giving it an 'antique' feel. Some very rare views are presented that would cost a fortune to purchase. The descriptions originally printed on the card's verso are reproduced here on the preceding page to each image so that they can be viewed and read all at once... And, did I mention the excellent price?
Weak points: Some cards which already suffered from poor image quality are made 'grainy' by the halftone printing. A few of the images are not in 3D. A few images have the left and right images reversed. While the original cards may have been this way, the least they could have done was correct them or note the error in the descriptions.
Still, these few and minor weaknesses do not detract from the overall quality of the books. Nothing can really describe seeing historical moments and people in 3D.These books should be in classrooms. I look forward to the next 2 releases in the series.
Superb!! December 23, 2009
funbear
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow....for $14 you get to step back in time and transplant yourself into NYC from 1840 - 1920's.... The viewer is superb, the image quality considering the 150+ year old images the author had to use...and the low cost printing technique was much better than I expected... The book cover has a great padded feel.... Dinkins hit a home run with this one...
I have a few other Dinkins 3d books, but this one is the best.... the imagery lends itself very well to the 3d effect...the photographers in their day had excellent technique.... the cost per view is ridiculously low vs. any other type of stereo viewing technique. I highly recommend this NYC 3d book.
See NYC as it was...and in some cases still is December 17, 2009
John J. Zelenka (New York City)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great quality with views you could spend hundreds of hours looking at and hundreds of dollars acquiring...all here for a bargain. The book has heft and an antique quality to it. It was the hit of this Thanksgivings get together. Young and old where captivated by it. The superb editing by Greg Dinkins adds information and insight to each of the vintage views. You won't be disappointed.
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