Holography in ‘Pictures From the Moon’ at New Museum
The show is skewed instead toward well-known artists who used holography and toward works made well after its heyday. But there is no question that holograms aptly demonstrate the quasi-mystical relationship humans have with technology — and photography in particular, which has often been harnessed to represent the supernatural. (Holograms are not unlike 19th-century ghost photography and ectoplasm experiments, and there’s also a wax-museum chilliness to them that conjures a long history of photographing the dead.)
“Pictures From the Moon: Artists’ Holograms 1969-2008” continues through Sept. 30 at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, Lower East Side; (212) 219-1222,newmuseum.org.
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