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Jules Doboscq: Stereo Nude (hand-coloured) 1855.
As is usual with new media, one of the first exploitable subjects is erotica or pornography. In the context of strait-laced Victorian sensibilities, this was ‘pornography’.
Louis Alfred Habert + Pierre Adolph Hennetier, + Louis Edmond Cougny (sculptors): Les Di- ableries 1860.
What’s interesting to me about the Diableries, is their semi-anonymous, rather covert ‘under- ground’ nature. They seem to be a precursor of the soft pornography - the ‘filthy postcards’ - of the Edwardian period, and their kind of alternative, occult cosmology a precursor to the wave of ‘un- derground’ anarchistic and idealistic literature that characterised the 1960s - the comics like