Richard Tandler

Stereoscopic Slide Collection

Client: Coplov Family

The project involved digitizing, cataloguing, and processing a collection of 3D stereoscopic slides captured by Richard Tandler before the Second World War in Austria and Australia. The aim was to make the collection accessible to a wider audience through digital screens and virtual reality technology. The project required careful handling of the slides and the use of specialized equipment to capture the images in high resolution. Once digitized, the slides were catalogued and processed to optimize their display on digital screens and in virtual reality environments. By making this collection available in digital form, the project enabled people to explore and appreciate the historical and cultural significance of these images without compromising the original materials.

The digitised collection was displayed at the New Horizons exhibition at the University of Melbourne and Lens + Form: Richard Tandler and Liz Woolf Exhibition at the Quadrant Gallery.

Tandler was prolific, with well over 1000 photographs in his collection, taken from the 1920s in Europe until his departure to Australia in 1938, and throughout Melbourne and Victoria in the 1940s-50s. Tandler was an early adopter of 3D and stereoscopic photography and all of these have been digitised to be viewed in Virtual Reality.