These flickering images are the result of the same principle but a different process: the images are behind a small, ribbed plastic lens that shifts what’s in focus. Starting in the 1950s, companies like Vari-Vue were able to mass-produce lenticular images through lenticular printing - a novelty you’re probably familiar with from Cracker Jack boxes and baseball cards: Image from Look at it from the left, you see the king from the right, the queen and if you look at it straight ahead, you get a mish-mash of both. One of the first examples of a lenticular picture still in existence is the Double Portrait of King Frederik IV and Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstow of Denmark by Gaspar Antoine de Bois-Clair, signed 1692.Īs you can see in the photo, this type of lenticular picture uses a corrugated structure to achieve the effect. Today, the technique is finding a home in fine art - including this month at The Art League. In Shakespeare’s time and in the 20th century, lenticulars were manufactured as amusing distractions. This dialogue by Shakespeare very likely refers to lenticular pictures - those accordion-pleated creations that show different images when you look at them from the left or right.
Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon Which shows like grief itself, but is not so įor sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,ĭivides one thing entire to many objects “Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Above: “Women Marchers: 19.” * * #art #thearleague #lenticular #photography #historicalphotography #womensmarch #dcart #dchistory #alexandriava #extraordinaryalx #walkwithlocals #bythings #acreativedc post shared by The Art League on at 7:26am PST Opening Reception tonight!! Sally Canzoneri presents viewers with lenticular photographs that chronicle the DC area’s evolving landscape and historical moments.
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