"I shot the dragon hologram before the RPS Holography Exhibition at Bath in 1983. John Brown had some on sale in the shop there but I was becoming dissatisfied with the overall look of the scene. The master hologram setup was still intact at the other end of the table. I decided to re-shoot it, changing the viewing angle to a more dynamic upward view and adding a flame breathing effect at a certain angle. The increased object beam light in the copy stage upped the brightness from green to yellow. The first Dragons were now referred to as Green Dragons and the remastered ones as Golden Dragons. John was not at first best pleased to hear I had made a new edition of Dragon to restock the RPS Bath Shop but soon agreed they were better. In the end a very limited number of Green Dragons were made. The high view in a Green Dragon plate was an aerial view of the skulls and bones surrounding the creature, whereas in the remastered hologram the beast towers over you and the back projected sky brightly illuminates the stark landscape."
JB
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1984
5” x 4”
Reflection hologram on Ilford film
A test piece from the Applied Holographics Holocopier made from a master produced at Brodel’s Sunninghill studio
Polaroid photo shows JB during construction of his studio
