Holographic visions : a history of new science
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Holographic visions : a history of new science
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-487) and index
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Description
Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades, the echoes of that explosion reached scientists, engineers, artists and popular culture. Emerging from classified military research, holography evolved to represent the power of post-war physics, an aesthetic union of art and science, the countercultural meanderings of holism, a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs and a
fertile plot device for science fiction.
New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques - but also priority disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries.
New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part A: Creating a Subject
- 2. Wavefront reconstruction in Britain and beyond
- 3. Wave photography in the Soviet Union
- 4. Lensless photography in America
- 5. Constructing holography
- Part B: Creating a Medium
- 6. Early exploitation
- 7. Technology of the sublime: the versatile hologram
- Part C: Creating an Identity
- 8. Defining the scientific holographer
- 9. Culture and counterculture: the artisanal holographer
- 10. Aesthetic holographers and their art
- 11. Building holographic communities
- Part D: Creating a Market
- 12. Commercialisation and ubiquity
- 13. The hologram and popular culture
- 14. Conclusion: creative visions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
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