''A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village by T. R. Williams'' is the full title of a book released in 2009 by

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and Elena Vidal. The book is an annotated collection of stereoscopic photographs taken by the

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T. R. Williams. It is sold with an OWL focussing stereoscope designed by Dr. May.

Overview and origins

Thomas Richard Williams Thomas Richard Williams (5 May 1824 – 5 April 1871) was a British professional photographer and one of the pioneers of stereoscopy. Williams's first business was in London around 1850. He is known for his celebrated stereographic daguerreotypes ...

(1824–1871), commonly known as T. R. Williams, was one of the early English pioneers of the techniques for taking stereoscopic (three-dimensional) photographs. In 1856 he published ''Scenes in Our Village'', a series of 59 stereoscopic photographs depicting life in a rural English village. At the time of publication Williams did not disclose the location of the village. Co-author Brian May (best known for being the guitarist of the band

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and for his work in astrophysics) became an enthusiast of stereoscope photographs as a child, and first encountered the work of T. R. Williams during the late 1960s. In 2003 May announced a search in order to identify the actual location of the ''Scenes in Our Village'' images. In 2004 May reported that he had identified the location as the village of

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in Oxfordshire.

References

External links

* Official documentary for book on

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