The images have been remade to allow viewers to experience them with 3-D glasses rather than with a stereoscope.
Stereographic cards, or stereographs, have been made since the 1840s. Around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, companies such as B. W. Kilburn Company (1865-1909) and Underwood & Underwood (1882-1923), from the USA, and Germany?s Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (1894-1922), sold vast quantities of the cards.
The stereographs, which were also made in Hungary, featured images of international exhibitions, diplomatic events, wars and natural catastrophes. Erotic images were popular among men, and images of far-away places were used as educational materials.
The popularity of stereographs declined at the end of the 1910s, when magazines, newspapers and films began to inform the public about world events in a more captivating and direct manner.
The exhibition at the National Museum draws from the museum?s own collection of stereographs as well as ones from the private collection of Sándor Felvinczi. The exhibition is open until December 31, 2006. The curator is Katalin Bognár.
Source: Múlt-kor
