Similar Visions
Museum of Holography, New York, USA.
21 March – 18 May 1980
Curated by Dr Stephen Benton of the Polaroid Corporation, this survey exhibition offered a history of three-dimensional imaging from the mid-19th century to the present. It included three-dimensional imaging techniques, situating holography within a broader genealogy that included earlier stereoscopic and 3D imaging methods, including light projections, lenticulars, stereo photography and dimensional optics.
The Museum of Holography, founded in 1976 on Mercer Street, New York, was a key institutional supporter of both scientific and artistic holography and mounted numerous survey, group and solo exhibitions.
A 65-page, fully illustrated catalogue was produced as part of the exhibition.
Headline image © Sam Moree. Used with permission.
Pentrojection 1978 which incorporated a specially produced animated film projected into a transparent cube filled with smoke, was shown publicly for the first time. The piece had been developed as part of Pepper’s undergraduate Fine Art degree studies at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (now Nottingham Trent University).
Exhibition Reference
Date: 21 March – 18 May 1980
3 June 2024 – 6 Februry 2026
Title: Similar Visions
Location: Museum of Holography, New York, USA
Notes: Curated by Dr. Stephen Benton, who selected the 3-D light projection Pentrojection as a main work at the entrance to the exhibition.
