PT Journal
AU Klahr, D
TI Stereocopic Photography Encounters the Staircase
SO archimaera
PY 2013
VL grenzwertig
IS 005
DE Laura Burd Schiavo; Library of Congress, Washington; Merleau-Ponty; Palais de Justice, Brussels; Tony Garnier; Underwood & Underwood; architectural thresholds; binocular vision; border; boundary; diagonal orientation; eye-foot-connection; focus; haptic essence; haptic eye; intermediary zone; medium; ocularcentric; passage; photography; planes of vision; staircase; stereo depth; stereoscope; stereoscopic effect; stereoview; three-dimensionality; threshold; vision
AB The staircase is presented as the architectural component that most potently embodies thresholds, boundaries and passages due to its diagonal orientation and essence as an intermediary zone. Connections then are made between the kinesthetic requirements of traversing a staircase and viewing a stereoscopic photograph. From this foundation, the haptic essence of stereoscopic photography is proposed as uniquely qualified medium through which to view a staircase and therefore thresholds, boundaries, and passages within architecture.  Analyses of stereoviews of staircases in the Palais de Justice in Brussels, the Library of Congress in Washington, and the Palais Garnier (Opéra) in Paris close the essay.
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