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With the invention of stereo photography, midway through the 19th century, people thought they had developed the ultimate technique for making true-to-life, realistic images. The eye could read and sense the space in the three-dimensional image, and the experience was more “real.” Folke Hanfeld plays with one of the fundamental elements of stereo photography, the distance between the two camera lenses. If this distance is increased, the picture appears smaller and the viewer feels larger. With this intervention, Hanfeld’s urban views change into a scale-model world. In the disorienting, three-dimensional bird’s-eye shots, imposing cities like Berlin and Osaka appear to come right up close, and give the viewer the almost physical experience of being a voyeur.