“To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts & the Supernatural” 3-D Exhibition

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Charles Dickens - stereo
Image: The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy

London Exhibition with 3-D Viewer: ‘To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts & the Supernatural’

The Charles Dickens Museum and The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy have collaborated, and a stereoscope with digitised Victorian 3-D images from Dr. May’s collection will be part of the Museum’s exhibition ‘To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts & the Supernatural.

Brian May is helping to bring Charles Dickens’s ghostly fascinations to life.

The Queen musician has lent the Charles Dickens Museum many stereoscopic images from his archive featuring Victorian images of “ghosts” and of Dickens himself.

To Be Read at Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts and the Supernatural runs from 5th October 2022 until 5th March 2023.
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The guitarist Brian May is helping to bring Charles Dickens’s ghostly fascinations to life. The Queen musician has lent the Charles Dickens Museum many stereoscopic images from his archive featuring Victorian images of “ghosts” and of Dickens himself.

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The rocker is a devoted collector of stereoscopic photographs — an early Victorian attempt to create 3D images — and several prized examples will go on show at the Charles Dickens Museum from Wednesday 5 October 2022.

About the exhibition:

Spirits, phantoms and spectres, Dickens’s stories are full of ghostly apparitions. For over 30 years Dickens wrote, told and performed tales about the supernatural. To Be Read at Dusk examines Dickens’s interest in the paranormal, his ‘hankering after ghosts’, and how he became a master ghost story teller publishing over 20 spooky tales.

Illustation The Last of the Spirits
Illustration: The Last of the Spirits – John Leech – Christmas Carol 1843

Denis Pellerin of The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy said”

“Readers have been so captured by Dickens’s stories and characters that they have been adapting and reproducing them in film and television for many decades. The stereoscopic images on display here are another example of that initial fascination leading to artistic invention — in this case Victorian photographers combining a love of Dickens’s work with excitement at a new photographic medium to create the shining images that you will see.”

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