Holographic Studios was founded and is operated by Jason Sapan. His professional career in the field began in 1968 demonstrating holography at an exhibition called "A Science Tune In," for Time,Inc. at their New York City headquarters, the Time-Life Building, across the street from Radio City Music Hall. The exhibition was created and run by Bell Laboratories. This was the first public exhibition of holography in America.

In the early 1970's Sapan worked at the Record Plant Studios, a world class recording studio in midtown Manhattan.  Much of his time was spent on the road in the famous Wally Heider remote truck recording live concerts.  Sapan worked with John Lennon, Dizzy Gillespie, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Tammy Wynette, George Jones,  Jack Bruce, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Philharmonic, Sonny Rollins, Roberta Flack, and Alice Cooper among many others. 

After that he worked at Sapan Engineering producing commercial display holography before opening the Holographic Studios in the late 1970's. In 1990, he was awarded the prestigious Golden OMA from the Point of Purchase Art Institute (POPAI) for his signed and numbered limited edition holograms for Hyatt.

One of his friends from his days working at Record Plant, Jack Douglas,  hired him to do a hologram business card.  When he was ready to show the hologram, Douglas told him to bring it to a former monastery in Westchester, NY where he was recording.  Sapan drove up and ran into several of his former co-workers who were all working there recording a group.  One of the people there that he didn't know came up to him to ask more about the hologram.  It was the first one he had seen and they spoke all night long.  At the end of the evening this person finally introduced himself.  Sapan said hi and introduced himself.  The person seemed shocked that Sapan didn't know who he was so he introduced himself again.  He said his name was Steve Tyler and that he had a band called Aerosmith.  Sapan was clueless as to who he was or who the band was.  So they became friends and Sapan was later commissioned to produce holograms for Tyler andAerosmith.  This kind of thing became a recurrent theme in Sapan's career.

Mr. Sapan has lectured extensively. He has taught college level beginner and advanced Holography at the School of Visual Arts. Some of the other schools he has lectured at include NYU, University of Vermont, The Art Institute of Chicago, Ohio State University, CCNY, and the Nantucket Island School of Art and Design. Industry groups such as the Huntsville, Alabama (NASA) chapter of the Optical Society of America and the Westchester Photographic Society have featured him as their keynote speaker.

For many years Jason Sapan was the portrait holographer for the Museum of Holography in New York City.

Jason Sapan is also well known for his pioneering use of laser lighting shows and special effects. In 1977, he created the opening logo for the CBS Sports Spectacular. He produced laser lighting effects at Studio 54 in New York City. His work was featured on television in an episode of The Equalizer. Over the years his laser shows have been commissioned by clients including Mobil Oil, Hewlett Packard, Arista Records, and The Philadelphia Stock Market. He has created many photographic laser effects in print ads. Some of his more notable projects have been for Macy's, Radio Shack, and Revlon. Not surprisingly, his art has appeared on the covers of Art Direction, Science & Mechanics, and Discothekin magazines.

One day a producer from England came in to hire Sapan to do laser efects for a music video for and 80's band called Flock of Seaguls.  After a short time, the producer asked Sapan if he would be interested in acting in the video as a scientist in a take off of the 50's science fiction classic film, The Day the Earth Stood Still.  He agreed and acted and did the laser effects as well.  As an interesting sidenote, Sapan became the first person to ever receive an on screen credit on MTV in a music video.

Mr. Sapan has also worked in the field of Vibration Analysis. He has worked for Kenward Oliphant, Acoustical Consultants Inc., and Frank Hubach Associates. Most of the work he performed was for computer chip manufacturers such as IBM, Fairchild, Motorola, and AMD. In this line of work accelerometers are used to detect and isolate low frequency vibration that would interfere with sub micron work. He has used his expertise in this field in analysing sources of troublesome vibration in holography laboratories including one at Bell Laboratories in Homdel, NJ.

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