Brian is now 75, but shows little sign of slowing down. He continues to tour with Queen, as well as doing solo work and, of course, is a committed stereoscopy evangelist. So does he personally find stereoscopy is good for him? As part of the promotion for Brian'sforthcoming bookStereoscopyIs Good For You: Life in 3-D, a leadingLondon photography gallery shallruna five monthexhibition,showcasing some of the captivatingimagery. Touchdown! As first ever sample of Bennu - believed to be the most hazardous asteroid in the universe - landed today in the Utah desert The range of subjects in these entirely new stereo pictures is immense, the contributors finding inspiration in Nature, people, pets, architecture, the sky above, and much more. This book is set to become a lasting testament to the evocative power of3-D photography, reinforcing our unshakeable conviction that Stereoscopy is Good For You !

Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D, Deluxe Collector’s

Brian May says : This is a thrill, and a first, to do a book signing session in my own store. I’m hoping this will lead to stereoscopy having a permanent home in London for the first time since the 19th century. The book credits Charles Wheatstone as the inventor of the stereoscope. “He was denied his proper place, other people claimed that they had invented it, and some of those falsehoods survived until quite recently,” said May. The book sets the record straight, he added. Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3D is the latest book from Brian’s London Stereoscopic Company (LSC). It is a collection of ‘stereo’ pictures taken by people all over the world throughout the pandemic. There are some fantastic images in the book as you can see here (they are best viewed with Brian’s Owl viewer, available here). One vision The whole of the LSC is only about six people, and five of us were involved in the book,’ he explains, ‘so it wasn’t a big team but it was a very hard-working one.May earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007 and is currently the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. We are analogue creatures. We’ve gone into this digital world, but there’s always a bit of discomfort about it. You’re looking at approximations to analogue waveforms in sound and also in vision. We have a yearning to hear things from a vinyl record, because there’s something in your head which just loves that smoothness of a real analogue signal. The range of subjects in these entirely new stereo pictures is immense, with more than 100 contributing photographers finding inspiration in Nature, people, pets, architecture, the sky above, and much more. This book is set to become a lasting testament to the evocative power of 3-D photography. For this book, we put out an invitation to this global community to send us their stereoscopic memories of life during the Covid Years.

Brian May: “Stereoscopy Is Good For You” – Book Signing

Working on this project, I learned all over again that the photographs we take say a lot more about US than the subject we capture. Viewing the stereoscopic work of others, we find ourselves completely transported to the place and time when their picture was taken. The images were of two photographs of the same subject, taken from viewpoints about the same distance apart as human eyes. By looking at these images through the stereoscope, the two pictures appeared as one 3D image. BRIAN MAY Full Speech to Contributors “Stereoscopy Is Good For You” 02/11/2022 – side fill – clip by Andrea Botto

And I’m really here just to say thank you – I can’t do a speech about how to take stereo picture because you all know! I can’t really do a story about how stereography was born because you all know that too right! I can point over there to Sir Charles Wheatstone and I think we should all raise a cheer for Charles Wheatstone – who made all this happen! As well as being a legendary guitarist, Brian May is an evangelist for stereoscopic photography. He’s publishing a new book and holding an exhibition of pictures that capture the world in incredible and immersive detail. How Brian May’s interest in stereoscopic photography developed