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The Light Fantastic Toe presents the five minutes leading up to a stereoscopic portrait of a family, taken
just before the patriarch leaves to join the Union Army. Pnini has been working to re-examine the notion
that a photograph represents a decisive moment—the incidence of light striking a lens at a precise instant
in time. A stereoscopic photograph consists of two nearly identical images taken with a camera with two
lenses, distanced apart as the human eyes. With the aid of a stereoscope viewer, a magical illusion of
depth is created. Pnini unravels this magical end. He extracts the two images …