Building the CrystalChrome Camera and the CrystalChrome Viewing Screen, 1985

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Roger de Montebello, Diagram showing the parts that make up the CrystalChrome Camera and the CrystalChrome Viewing Screen, 1984; Photostat with notations in pencil and ink; 16 x 23 inches

The top of this drawing shows the assembly process for the camera. The bottom third of the drawing shows the process to create the viewing screen mold followed by the assembly process for the viewing screen itself.

Under pressure to complete a working model of the CrystalChrome Camera before the end of 1985, de Montebello simplified the process first in January and then more radically in March.

(left) Roger de Montebello, Update of Emergency Flow Diagram – CrystalChrome, dated January 30, 1985; Photostat; 11 x 17 inches

(right) Roger de Montebello, Revised Update of Flow Diagram – CrystalChrome, dated March 16, 1985; Pencil drawing on graph paper; 11 x 16 inches

Roger Lannes de Montebello

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Roger Lannes de Montebello (1908–1986): A 40-Year Quest for 3-D Photography
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Although Philippe de Montebello, the former Metropolitan Museum director is well-known, few people have heard about his father Roger de Montebello and his life-long creative obsession with three-dimensional photography.