Holograficus Austriacus Wöber
 In 1960, Irmfried Woeber, who works as a graphic artist, designer and holographer nowadays, had a crucial experience: with a simple camera of a well-known name, a Box Tengor by Zeiss-Ikon, he made his first black and white photographs. It was ever so fascinating for the 16 year-old in these days to have recorded a unique and passed moment for posterity. Since this moment photography has been one of his preferred media, until he came across holography and experienced a totally new world of three-dimensionality.
Already in 1985 he had established his own laboratory, started with his first attempts and integrated the new and widely unknown technique into his artistic work.
The impossibility of recording moments like in photography called for a change in thinking – spontanity could not be created just through complicated and costly equipment.
In 1992, a high point in his "holographic life" should appear: a visit to Prof. Denisyuk at the Ioffe Institute in Saint Petersburg. During lots of interesting talks with Prof. Denisyuk and his fellow colleagues, Irmfried Woeber made the decision to use puls-holography and the "transportable camerasystem" developed in St. Petersburg in his future works.
Therefore since 1993 portrait holography has become one of his most important means of expression and his most favoured field of work in holography.
Again he had been caught by fascination, to record a unique moment, but this time in high-tech, in nanoseconds and threedimensional.
Irmfried Woeber lives and works in the small village of Wuermla in Lower Austria, near to Vienna. Besides his work as designer he teaches at the Fachhochschule for Telecommunication and Media in St. Poelten and has presented a broad spectrum of his work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad. ...
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