Kurt Bauer and Hermine Raab present

NORWAY

Sept 18th, 7 pm

Sparkassensaal, Baden bei Wien

After six weeks travelling through fascinating Norway – by ship, car and train – we’re taking you along on our journey.

We captured memorable moments of nature, landscapes and encounters with people in 3D images and videos. Look forward to spectacular fjords, vast plateaus and deep valleys, lively towns and quiet spots.

Through special encounters in stunning 3D footage with HD quality and live commentary, we experience Norway once again with you. You’ll feel as though you’re right there.

Diableries are a very French invention. They appeared as illustrations in the early 1830s and when stereoscopy became popular one ingenious photographer/publisher hired two modellers to create his own version of Hell (the Paris of his time) with clay models that were photographed for the stereoscope before being destroyed.

Photo-historian Denis Pellerin, from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy, will take you on a journey through this fantasy Underworld, showing how the Diableries evolved from religious scenes to sometimes ferocious political and social satire and how they were also used as a tribute to some well-known figures and events of the time. These tableaux, full of skeletons, grinning devils, and pretty women, reveal a lot about French society between 1860 and 1874 and are funnier than they are scarier as well as having a deeper meaning than first meets the eye.

Denis Pellerin presents

LES DIABLERIES

Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell

Sept 19th, 10 am

Sparkassensaal, Baden bei Wien

 He will then guide you through the exhibition in Kaiserpark

Kurt Bauer and Hermine Raab present

The Danube

from its Source to its Mouth 

Sept 19th, 7pm

Sparkassensaal, Baden bei Wien

 Wild nature and modern civilisation, romantic floodplains and bustling cities – the Danube is a river of contrasts. It is the second-longest river in Europe, flowing from west to east and crossing 10 countries. This makes it the most international river system in the world.

Stereo photographers Kurt and Hermine walk, drive and sail along the Danube – from its source to its mouth on the Black Sea. With HD-quality 3D images and live commentary, you’ll feel as though you’re right there.

The Victorians loved art and would visit exhibitions at the Royal Academy or galleries all over the country whenever they could. Owning art, however, was only for the wealthiest few. This is why some enterprising publishers and photographers decided it would be a good idea to re-stage some of the most popular paintings and illustrations of the time for the stereoscope, thus allowing more people to access and enjoy artworks.

This reverse engineering process, which involved re-creating in the photographic studio the settings, props and models used by the original artists, started as early as the mid 1855s. The speaker has found over a hundred stereoscopic cards directly inspired from artworks (paintings, book illustrations but also cartoons) which were very popular then but are mostly forgotten these days. In some cases, the stereoscopic photograph is – often with the microphotograph – one of the only pictorial representations of paintings which are considered lost.

Denis Pellerin presents

Re-staging popular Art Works

for the Sterereoscope

Sept 20th, 10 am

Sparkassensaal, Baden bei Wien