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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean Johnston |
ISBN: | 9780198712763 0198712766 |
OCLC Number: | 933280643 |
Description: | xi, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- Culture and technology -- Why cultural history? -- Audiences and assessments -- pt. A. Visual culture and modernity : the backstory to holograms -- 2. Scientific imagery and visual novelty -- Modern alchemy -- Scientific imaging for enthusiasts and professionals -- The stereoscope : scientific magic at home -- Halting science : the case of the Lippmann photograph -- 3. Grassroots modernity -- Reproduction for the millions -- Imagery to exhilarate -- Imagery to educate -- Imagery to emulate -- Imagery to entertain -- Displaying progress -- pt. B. Making sense of holograms -- 4. Hologram secrets -- Starting small : microscopic culture -- Trusting holograms -- Making imagery electronic -- From radar to holograms -- 5. Holograms as magic -- Modern illusions -- Portraying perplexity -- Distilling the essence of holograms -- 6. Holograms and progress -- Representing modernity -- Expressing national status -- Anticipating consumer wonders -- Engineering the future -- pt. C. Hologram cultures -- 7. Holograms for enthusiasts -- Hobbyists, tinkerers and technical enthusiasts -- Growing amateur scientists -- Holograms for amateurs -- 8. Hologram communities -- Countercultural expressions -- Meditating on holograms -- Making holograms move -- Holograms at school -- Enthusiasts' networks -- 9. Holograms on display -- Exhibiting holograms -- Holograms as art -- Holograms and heritage -- Holograms and the postmodern -- Collecting holograms -- 10. Consuming holograms -- Fitting holograms to culture -- Canning the uncanny -- Symbols of security -- The digital transition -- 11. Channelling dreams -- Galaxies and holograms far, far away -- Spectacle, aesthetics or ubiquity? -- Popular and unpopular cultures -- Magic, metaphors and materialism -- Appendix : A taxonomy of holograms -- Real-world holograms -- Misidentifying holograms. |
Responsibility: | Sean F. Johnston, University of Glasgow. |
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Johnston has written a cultural, technological and historical exposition of the hologram. Johnston argues that artifacts and people intermingle and the recognition of this fact is essential to an understanding of the development and use of the hologram. Johnston poses the fascinating question of why holograms never gained popularity among consumerssimilar to the way the television grew in prominence. The author tackles this subject and many other relevant questionsthroughout this discourse on a modern technology. With numerous illustrations and photographs, an extensive bibliography, and two appendices, the author has composed a historical work that thoroughly explains both the technical and cultural importance of the hologram. * H. N. Boyer, CHOICE * Johnston is the hologram's Boswell ... Johnston meticulously records its protean adventures among scientists, entrepreneurs and the general public throughout the world * Michael Saler, Times Literary Supplement * [C]omprehensive for common readers and specialists alike. * Reva Garg, Optics & Photonics News * Holography is a truly fascinating optical medium, almost subconsciously embedded in our culture. Now that the field has matured, it is ripe for cultural investigation and Johnson does just that in a detailed, investigative and intelligently written series of observations.... His expert view is supported by extensive references and footnotes. This book will extend the cultural horizons of the scholar, the visual enthusiast and the curious cultural onlooker. * Andrew Pepper * This is an important contribution to a small but growing group of pioneering studies showing how twentieth century technologies drew on much richer and diverse sources of creativity across society than the moated community sometimes connoted by the phrase "science and technology". Showing how a spectrum of products and processes resulted from the interpenetration of diverse communities of physicists, engineers, corporate and countercultural enthusiasts, artists andvisionaries, Johnston helps us see the process of inventing and developing the hologram in multiple dimensions. * Robert Bud * This is a highly informative and engaging book. Johnston takes his audiences from the intriguing beginnings to the thousand-fold uses of holography today. He explores the environments in which holography developed, and the new experts who evolved with it. A must read for lay audiences and specialists alike! * Klaus Staubermann * Holograms offers insightful contextualisation of a science history tracing holography from science workshop to commercial success. Its roller-coaster ride takes you from the beginnings of a new medium to its use as a ubiquitous optical security marker and beyond. Wonderfully written and crammed with factual information, I urge all those interested in understanding the journey of applied optics, greatest imaging tools. * Professor Martin Richardson ARPS De Montfort University, Leicester * Johnston has targeted an important and fascinating topic. He masterfully interweaves strands of cultural meaning, technical preconditions, theoretical analysis, practical applications and economic ramifications. A must-read for cultural historians and, of course, for historians and sociologists of modern science and technology. * Klaus Hentschel * Holograms: A Cultural History offers an engaging and highly readable history of the hologram from a totally different point of view. ... Johnston is an excellent storyteller... * Jan Baetens, Leonardo Reviews Quarterly * Read more...
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