The Hungarian National Museum presents a guest exhibition of stereophotographs related to the First World War. A stereophotograph is a special type of photography, which is actually two slightly different images of the same object taken from two different angles according to the position of the human eye. When viewed through a special device, the stereoscope, the two pairs of images merge into a single three-dimensional image in the mind of the viewer.
The travelling exhibition presents World War II stereophotographs published by foreign companies, but also includes a number of Hungarian images. The photographs are not treated as illustrations, but are examined as historical sources and as direct objects of historical research. Our aim is to use the available sources to explore as thoroughly as possible the history of the photographs and/or the ways in which they were used.
The nezopontok3d.hu website is an integral part of the joint exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum and the private collector Sándor Felvinczi. Viewpoints, an exhibition of World War I stereophotographs using the anaglyph technique, opened in December 2014 at the Hungarian National Museum and was subsequently hosted by museums in the countryside. Following exhibitions in Odorheiu Secuiesc and Gheorgheni, the Szekler Museum of Ciuc is now hosting the unusual exhibition.