Glass Plates from Across the Ocean: The Private Photographic Legacy of Hussar Colonel László Isépy
It is a rare moment when family heritage and scientific research meet by pure chance. László Isépy, a former military officer of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and a teacher at the Ludovika Academy, certainly never suspected that his glass negatives would one day find a safe home in Australia. Ultimately, it was from there that a Hungarian museologist discovered them, and through her, they were revealed to the domestic public. Through a chance encounter between the Australian Past on Glass project and a staff member of the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute (OSZMI), pieces of an extraordinary private photographic oeuvre emerged from the fog of oblivion a few years ago.