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Paper Peepshows (Hardcover)
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Paper Peepshows (Hardcover)
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Peepshows were introduced in the mid-eighteenth century by Martin
Engelbrecht in Augsburg. They called for a long wooden cabinet
designed for purpose incorporating a viewing lens and sometimes a
mirror. In the 1820s peepshows made entirely of paper appeared on
the scene more or less at the same moment in Vienna, London and
Paris. The clumsy cabinet was no longer called for. The new
peepshow was equipped with paper bellows so it could be expanded or
contracted in a trice. Paper peepshows were light; they were
comparatively cheap. They fitted neatly into the pocket. Viewing a
Paper Peepshow is an intimate, individual experience that, in the
age of television and hand-held computers, gives a real sense of
personal discovery. The viewer engages by peeping through a tiny
hole and thereby discovers inside layers of images, like a
pocket-sized stage set.The format lent itself to a wide variety of
subjects: to coronations and to state visits and funerals, to
pleasure gardens, to trips up rivers and to the ceremonial openings
of new railways, to distant views of cities and to tourist
landmarks, to military engagements in exotic places, and to the
July Revolution and the fall of the Bourbons in France in 1830. The
Crystal Palace, erected in Hyde Park 1851 for the Great Exhibition,
inspired the production of very large numbers of peepshows, mostly
made overseas and imported. Peepshows made possible visits to sites
existing in the imagination, to plunge down Alice s rabbit hole,
for example, and to wander through the Garden of Eden in Paradise.
The main centre of peepshow manufacture in the nineteenth century
was toy-making Nuremburg. Briefly in the 1950s it was Britain.
Nowadays it is the United States. Paper peepshows are no longer
intended essentially for children but for bibliophiles and
art-appreciating adults.
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