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Lóránd Eötvös' photos
430 photographs from the legacy of Lóránd Eötvös, physicist, inventor and mountaineering photographer. The images come from two collections, from the that of the Geological Survey and of the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport, respectively. This is the first time that the most important images from the two public collections are presented together in this unusual compilation. Stereo photographs and glass negatives of Budapest at the turn of the century, of high mountain hikes and physical experiments in the Alps. The end of the 19th century through the camera of an adventurous, experimental polyhistor.
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„And pure existence dictates that there is nothing—no love, no bloodshed, no party loyalty, no sexual attraction, no cascade of lava, no volunteer blood donor, no sunset, nothing in which there is life beating, or nothing that is at the brink of being devoured by non-existence but holds on to life tightly still—that you could picture easily without the color red.” The Color of All Colors: Writer Attila Bartis on Photos from the Fortepan Archive appeared first on Weekly Fortepan.
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Every month or two, we update our site with around 2-3000 images, often mixing family photos of many donors, but sometimes a photo documentation of an author or a company is added to the archive.
