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Holograms (on glass) of Charles Piazzi-Smyth's glass photographic-plate boxes

These holographic reproductions investigate the containers that once housed early photographic plates. By using holography to represent objects designed to preserve photographic images, the work creates a layered meditation on archival practices and the preservation of visual information.

The choice of Charles Piazzi-Smyth's storage boxes—objects from the history of photography itself—emphasizes how our contemporary methods of image-making exist in dialogue with historical practices, materials, and systems of cultural preservation.