Immersion and stereoscopy in barranquilla at the beginning of the 20th century
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Angélica Piedrahita
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5489-1107
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Stereoscopic tours were pre-cinematographic devices that from immersion and photography designed the possibility of traveling from optical simulations. Preceding the current virtual tours, these tours tried to categorize the world from a markedly colonial perspective, simplifying and generalizing the visit to other countries. The article presents a reflection on the look and act of observing taking as an object of analysis a stereoscopic tour made by the American company Underwood & Underwood in Barranquilla at the beginning of the 20th century. First, the work seeks to display the specificities of the eye experience in these stereoscopic spaces and the way in which the sensation of depth is produced from the eye’s movement, in order to point out the contribution of this device to visual experiences. Second, the paper narrates the experience of exploring the photographed spaces and interacting with the current inhabitants to whom the archive images are presented. When presenting the device to the people from the Barranquilla area, memories are promoted about the urban development of the city and concern about its heritage. In addition, aspirations of economic development from tourism are detected, making visible the correspondence of the product with contemporary practices of visual memory based on the exploitation of tourism. Throughout the article, the concept of immersion linked to technique and tourism is reviewed, in search of concepts that respond to mercantile and technocratic currents of the revival of stereoscopy in virtual and augmented reality.
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>>MATERIAL VISUAL
Man at desk, Panama. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X89239. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2r29p5n8/?order=2&brand=oac4
Man at his desk. Barranquilla, Columbia. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X96450. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1m3nb89w/?order=2&brand=oac4
Man at his desk. Cuba. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Universit of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X46160. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8000158v/?brand=oac4
Mr. Jerome. District attorney at his desk. New York. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum INMERSIÓN Y ESTEREOSCOPIA POR LA BARRANQUILLA
DE COMIENZOS DEL SIGLO XX | Angélica Piedrahita 45 of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.WX13006.SS. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1g5014t6/?order=2&brand=oac4
Wash Day. Cuzco. Perú. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X93152. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4580146v/?order=2&brand=calisphere
Wash Day. Cuba. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X45938. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3f59p5vq/?order=2&brand=oac4
Filipino Wash - Day On The Banks Of The Pasig, Manila. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.V10003. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt829015nn/?order=2&brand=oac4
Wash Day. Pennsylvania. V. J. Stanton. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. 1927. Registro 1996.0009.21300. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9b69q2vx/?order=2&brand=oac4
A Colombian Washing Day - Along the Magdalena River Near Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X11517. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ kt4k4012s9/?order=2&brand=oac4
A Colombian Washing Day - Along the Magdalena River Near Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X96573. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3k40129r/?order=2&brand=oac4
A typical thatched roofed home in picturesque Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X11516 http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt000009z6/?brand=oac4
Comolli, Jean-Louis. 1980. “Machines of the Visible”. En The Cinematic Apparatus, editado por Teresa de Lauretis y Stephen Heath, 121-142. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press.
— 2010. Cine contra espectáculo seguido de técnica e ideología: 1971-1972. Buenos Aires: Manantial.
Crank, Mike. 2004. “Cultural Geographies of Tourism”. En A Companion to Tourism, editado por Alan A.
Lew, C. Michael Hall y Allan M. Williams, 74-84. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
Crary, Jonathan. 2008. Las técnicas del observador: visión y modernidad en el siglo XIX. Murcia: Cendeac.
González Cueto, Danny. 2004. “Una memoria visual para el futuro: la situación de los archivos fotográficos en el Caribe Colombiano”. Memorias: Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe 1 (1). Consultado mayo 2, 2017. https://bit.ly/2Ktse2r
Dickens, C. (1850). “Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller”. Household Words, 1(4), 73-77.
D’Hauteserre, Anne-Marie. 2004. “Postcolonialism, Colonialism, and Tourism. En A Companion to Tourism”, editado por Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall y Allan M. Williams, 235-245. Publishing: Oxford.
Helmholtz, Hermann von. 1962. Handbook of Physiological Optics. Vol. 3. Traducido por Georuge T. Ladd. Nueva York: Dover.
Herzog, Werner. 2010. La cueva de los sueños olvidados. Arte France.
Huhtamo, Erkki. 2006. “The Pleasures of the Peephole: An Archaeological Exploration of Peep Media”. En Book of Imaginary Media: Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium, editado por Eric Kluitenberg, 74-155. Ámsterdam: NAi Publishers.
Holmes, Burton. 1936. A Trip Around the World Through the Telebinocular in Three Dimension Pictures. Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company.
Piedrahita, Hilda. 1987. Estereofotografías norteamericanas: una mirada sobre América Latina en tres dimensiones. Catálogo de exposición. Bogotá: Fondo Cultural Cafetero.
McMurry, Frank M. 1936. A Trip Around the World Through the Telebinocular in Three Dimension Pictures. Editado por Burton Holmes. Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1968). “The Intertwining: The Chiasm”. The Visible and the Invisible 146: 511-520.
Shattuck, Roger. 1983. Proust’s Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in A la recherche du temps perdu. Princeton Press: New Jersey.
Silverman, Kaja. 2009. El umbral del mundo visible. Traducido por Alfredo Brotons Muñoz. Madrid: Akal.
Urry, John. 2002 [1990]. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure an Travel in Contemporary Societies. Londres: Sage.
>>MATERIAL VISUAL
Man at desk, Panama. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X89239. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2r29p5n8/?order=2&brand=oac4
Man at his desk. Barranquilla, Columbia. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X96450. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1m3nb89w/?order=2&brand=oac4
Man at his desk. Cuba. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Universit of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X46160. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8000158v/?brand=oac4
Mr. Jerome. District attorney at his desk. New York. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum INMERSIÓN Y ESTEREOSCOPIA POR LA BARRANQUILLA
DE COMIENZOS DEL SIGLO XX | Angélica Piedrahita 45 of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.WX13006.SS. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1g5014t6/?order=2&brand=oac4
Wash Day. Cuzco. Perú. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X93152. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4580146v/?order=2&brand=calisphere
Wash Day. Cuba. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X45938. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3f59p5vq/?order=2&brand=oac4
Filipino Wash - Day On The Banks Of The Pasig, Manila. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.V10003. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt829015nn/?order=2&brand=oac4
Wash Day. Pennsylvania. V. J. Stanton. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7.18 × 4,18 pulgadas. 1927. Registro 1996.0009.21300. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9b69q2vx/?order=2&brand=oac4
A Colombian Washing Day - Along the Magdalena River Near Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X11517. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ kt4k4012s9/?order=2&brand=oac4
A Colombian Washing Day - Along the Magdalena River Near Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X96573. http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3k40129r/?order=2&brand=oac4
A typical thatched roofed home in picturesque Barranquilla, Columbia. S.A Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside. Impresión fotográfica 7,18 × 4,18 pulgadas. Registro 1996.0009.X11516 http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt000009z6/?brand=oac4
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Piedrahita, A. (2018). Immersion and stereoscopy in barranquilla at the beginning of the 20th century. Cuadernos De Música, Artes Visuales Y Artes Escénicas, 13(2), 27–45. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.mavae13-2.iyep
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