STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE

2012: THE BIG ISSUE: HERITAGE.

THE HERITAGE ISSUE

Heritage is what survives of the past: the preservation of tradition and the freezing of memory for posterity. Photography is often criticised for its tendency to restrict the flow of time. This issue hopes, instead, to celebrate the agelessness of the medium. It explores birthright, tradition, legacy and custom, among countless other interpretations of heritage. 

Alongside a varied collection of antique and family photographs, are featured the works of students Benoît Grogan-Avignon, Irina Earnshaw and Maya Tounta, who explore the elasticity of the word heritage –from nostalgia to Orientalism. This issue’s selection of Special Collection images archive includes two series of black and white portraits, by G. Allan Little and Lady Henrietta Gilmour, and an encounter with the heritage of ‘the other’, in J.B. Milne’s photographs of Thailand. 

Nicholas Guy examines the idea of photography as taxidermy in his article ‘Resurrection and Photography’, while Alex Derpanopoulos allows us insight into an eccentric and unexpected piece of his own family heritage. And Matilda Rossetti’s interview with poet Robert Crawford and photographer Norma MacBeath examines the relationship between old and new, which is so pertinent to heritage. 

STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE

2012; THE STEREOSCOPE mini-ISSUE

THE STEREOSCOPE mini-ISSUE

The history of photography in St Andrews is rooted in dialogue. A to-ing and fro-ing and joining of distinct perspectives culminating in the unified duality of the stereoscope. In the wake of Brewster and Talbot’s correspondence is a wealth of photographic activity extending up to the present day. In our first experimental mini-issue, the Stereoscope Stereoscope examines duality from a variety of perspectives.

While Aisha Farr plays with the split nature of representation, Jeremy Waterfield exploits, separates and combines the formal components of the medium in his use of double exposure. In our feature ‘Reflections’, a juxtaposed pair of old and new images is explored through short texts, in an exploration of how word and image might interact. Also included are thoughts on the work of Erwin Blumenfeld, and photographs selected from both the university’s Special Collections and currently practising students.