MAGIC MOMENTS

Holographic stereograms have been around for a long time. Ten years or so in the commercial environment. Only recently has the technique been available to students and artists as a medium. The thought processes required to create these images are a combination of stills photography, animation and films (computer generated or otherwise).

I see them as captured moments as opposed to the 'decisive moment' of Cartier-Bresson. They are action in the sense that they are narrative, a sequence of events occurs - but they are also re-action in the sense that the viewer can play with these pictures visually and through physical action.

The message is that while life can be looked back on as a series of grand events or achievements it can equally, and with as much validity, be seen as a few, key small events that often, for me at least, are more relevant than the grand themes.

DEVON COAST 1992

Work shown in the exhibition:

DEVON COAST
1992

Achromate white light transmission hologram
55" x 8"
Silver halide film laminated to mirror
Artist's proof

MY GREAT AUNT
1993

Animated reflection hologram
8" x 10"
Silver halide film laminated to glass

Artist's proof 

WATER DROPLET
1994

Animated reflection hologram
4" x 5"

Silver halide on glass

Artist's proof

View a full list of works by Jeffrey Robb in the Jonathan Ross Hologram Collection