This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Pascal Martine. The two discuss Pascal’s collection of wooden stereo photo viewers, both handheld and tabletop, as well as how his collection began out of a love for the nostalgia he had for his childhood Viewmaster. In 2019, he built his own stereo rig in order to take modern stereo photos and then documented his journey on social media.
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About My Guest:
Pascal Martine started his stereoscopic journey in late 2016 soon after he spotted a small cardboard viewer at a local antiques market. It reminded him of a childhood Viewmaster. His collection now includes dozens of wooden viewers, both handheld and tabletop, sometimes with their storage furniture, cameras, and developing tools as well as historic documents like catalogs and thousands of glass stereo views. He enjoys restoring viewers, bringing back the original beauty to a viewer or camera that was long forgotten in an attic or basement.
After the 2019 ISU congress in Lübeck, Germany Pascal built his own stereo rig and began sharing his photos on Instagram. You can read about his current standard workflow for taking modern stereo photos here and see the results on Instagram. In 2020, he got involved in the Virtual Stereoscopic Community.
About Maureen Taylor:
Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com