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(Image: Jim Naughten)

These photos of a lar gibbon skeleton were taken at London鈥檚 Grant Museum of Zoology 鈥� from locations 6.4 centimetres apart. Unfocus your eyes until the images overlap, and they may fuse, allowing you to see the gibbon in 3D. You may also feel that the skeleton is moving: the ribcage seems to belly out, the stance becomes lifelike. You might even get the sense that you are looking out of someone else鈥檚 eyes 鈥� unless your eyes are exactly 6.4 centimetres apart, that is.

This sense of presence, of witnessing a moment, appeals to artist , whose 鈥渟tereograms鈥� portray animals preserved by Victorian collectors. 鈥淭he effect of looking at a stereoscopic image is magical and transformative,鈥� he says. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a strong sense of being present in the past鈥� 鈥� appropriate enough for a technology as old as photography itself.

(Image: Jim Naughten)

For those who struggle to fuse the images, help is at hand. Visitors to Naughten鈥檚 show Animal Kingdoms, at the in London from 26 September, and later in the year at the in New York, will be handed special stereoscopic viewers (see photo). , complete with stereoscopic glasses, is in production.

This article appeared in print under the headline 鈥淕ibbon in stereo鈥�