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Patrick Boyd - Man with a Holo Camera

2017

7th – 31st March,  2017

Private views will be held on:

Tuesday March 7th  6.30 – 8.30pm

Thursday March 9th  6.30 - 8.30pm

Sunday March 12th  12.00 - 3.00pm

 

Open Days

Wednesdays 12.00 – 6.00pm

Viewing by appointment at other times.

 

Video of the exhibition available here.  (Opens in a new window/tab)

A series of holograms & holographic stereograms based around cinematography. The stereograms are small movies with no cast, set or script. The camera is an instrument, much like the human  eye, that is best used to explore these happenings in real life.   The moments of time are then preserved with depth and time in a ghost like memory.

If you’re under thirty, you have probably not had many chances to see holography, a vibrant visual phenomenon that combines science, art and technology to create interactive, 3-D images. If you’re over forty, you have most likely forgotten all about it.


International award winning photographer Patrick Boyd falls into the latter age category but holography has never been far from his mind.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was hailed as the ‘medium of the future’  he  produced some of the most memorable, inspiring holograms  of the time, winning coveted places in global exhibitions. A graduate of  the Royal College of Art Holography Unit, Patrick’s  innovative approach led him to work with iconic designer Zandra Rhodes and won him a scholarship to take up a residency at the New York Museum of Holography.  Further residencies in Japan and Germany followed as his reputation grew.


When public interest in holography waned with the dawning of the digital age,  Patrick moved on to pastures new, but in recent years the virus that lurks in all holographers became active once more and he started making holograms again, in various facilities in the USA and now in his new home studio in Wales. Technology has moved on and today he can record video sequences on an iPhone which can be transferred into holographic stereograms (picture a flick-book in 3D or a 3D movie which you can play back and forth simply by moving your head).


In this  exhibition he presents a series of holograms & holographic stereograms based around cinematography. These stereograms are small movies with no cast, set or script. Like aherents to  the Russian kino-eye theory, Patrick thinks of the camera as an instrument, much like the human  eye, that is best used to explore real life.   The moments of time he snatches are then preserved like ghostly animated memories in 3D.

See work in the collection by Patrick Boyd.

 

See work in the collection by Patrick Boyd.

 

 

 

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An Invitation

The Jonathan Ross Hologram Collection website has been running for fifteen years so we decided it was time for a new look.

The new format has scope for lots more material so I would like to invite all the holographers whose work is featured here to submit background information, stories and images to supplement those I have provided. That way we can work together to make this the best resource on holographic imaging to be found on the web.

About the Collection

The Jonathan Ross Hologram Collection, based in London, UK, is one of the largest resources in the world for creative, display and commercial holography.

A number of touring exhibitions, containing work from the collection, have been presented in outstanding museums and galleries both within the UK and abroad. Information about new acquisitions and exhibitions is added here on a regular basis.  

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