Pic courtesy Jonathan Ross and Buckinghamshire County Museum
Exhibition: Holograms – the First 60 Years, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, until March 21 2009
Sixty years after first being invented by Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor in Rugby, the artistic quality of holograms continues to develop and surprise.
Pic courtesy Jonathan Ross and Buckinghamshire County Museum
Gabor won a Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in 1971, the start of a period up until the late 1980s when holograms became something of a craze.
Pic courtesy Jonathan Ross and Buckinghamshire County Museum
Famous faces including Richard Hamilton, Boy George and Herbie Hancock are portrayed in holograms, as well as birds, animals, images designed to appeal to children and an examination of the practical use of holograms in credit cards, cosmetics, communications and design.
Pic courtesy Jonathan Ross and Buckinghamshire County Museum
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