Megalethoscope

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Megalethoscope

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Italian Maker · 1823–1893

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Photographer

After learning photography while working as an optician's assistant in Paris, Carlo Ponti moved to Venice, Italy, around 1852. He opened a shop selling optical equipment as well as architectural views of Venice, Padua, and Verona and reproductions of works of art. Ponti also invented optical instruments designed to allow a greater experience of three-dimensionality in two-dimensional photographs,

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Date: about 1862
Medium: Wood, metal fixtures, and glass
Culture: Italian
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

An optical viewing device for photographs which enlarges and adds apparent dimensionality to them. The photographs are applied to specially designed concave plates which are inserted into the viewer.

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