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Colorama : from fuchsia to midnight blue
\"When is a blue dress not blue but navy, indigo, denim, or lapiz lazuli? With this fascinating and informative book in hand, young readers will be able to identify the colors that speak to them--and understand the reason there are so many subtle differences between shades\"--Provided by publisher.
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Living Color
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning— a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history—including being a basis for the transatlantic slave trade. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, Jablonski suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.
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A very brief history of colour metaphysics
These are five playfully pessimistic meditations on the metaphysics of colour, arguing that metaphysical thinking does not fit well with the beautiful universe of colours: Neither Platonism nor relativism nor reductionism nor the distinction between primary and secondary qualities nor the denial of the existence of some colours at the expense of others offers convincing ways of dealing with the phenomena of colour. In the final, sixth meditation the standard analysis of magenta is challenged with some unorthodox ideas that can be traced back to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s colour research.
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The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction
How to\" books are a dime a dozen. What makes this book special is that it is also a \"Why\" book. Hullfish sits down with world-class colorists and records not only what they do but why they do it. That's where the magic lies.
\"How\" is the question to ask if you want to become a craftsman. \"Why\" is the question that creates artists. I bought the first edition for \"How\" and came away with a lot of \"Why.\" This edition has lots more of both, with material from several additional world class colorists.
If you want an inside look into the art and craft of the professional colorist there's no better way to do it in book form. Whether you're learning to be a colorist or just want to understand what really happens when you decide something can be \"fixed in post,\" you need to read this book. -Art Adams, cinematographer/educator, ProVideoCoalition.com. This book just keeps getting better with each new edition. Steve Hullfish's approach is designed to teach techniques that transfer to a wide range of popular and accessible color correction tools. The intent is to demystify the process, so readers can learn the concepts and apply them, regardless of whether the software has sliders, wheels or curves. Best of all, Hullfish features extensive tips and tricks from some of the premier colorists in the country, so you can learn from the masters. If you only purchase one book on color correction, this is the essential guide to include in your library. -Oliver Peters, Oliver Peters Peters Post Production Services, LLC A terrific and much-needed book for anybody serious about digital color correction. Starting with the basics, it helps the reader work through a series of specific, well-illustrated examples, covering all the major software applications, and supports the text with insightful comments from prominent working colorists. All in all, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their skills in this rapidly changing field. -Steve Cohen, editor, Emmy and ACE Eddie winner, author of Avid Agility.
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Dino : a first book of colors
Differently named and colored dinosaurs hatching from an egg are presented on each double-page spread. Die cut openings in the pages starting at the front cover show part of all the eggs underneath. The openings diminish in size so parts of almost all the eggs and a variety of colors are visible from the front cover.
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Cultures of Colour
Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.
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Chromatopia : an illustrated history of colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and serendipity,Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history's most extraordinary pigments.Spanning the ancient world to modern leaps in technology, this is a book for the artist, the history buff, the science lover and the design fanatic.
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Color ordered : a survey of color order systems from antiquity to the present
Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see—what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically identified and arranged in some kind of order. How to order colors is not merely a philosophical question, it also has many practical applications in art, design, and commerce. Our intense interest in color and its myriad practical applications have led people throughout history to develop many systems to characterize and order it. The number of color order systems developed throughout history is unknown but ranges in the hundreds. Many are no longer used, but continue to be of historical interest. Despite wrong turns and slow progress, our understanding of color and its order has improved steadily. Although full understanding continues to elude us, it seems clear that it will ultimately come from research in neurobiology, perception, and consciousness. This book is a compendium of 165 systems, dating from antiquity to the present. In it, the chapters present a history and categorization of color systems, describe each one using original figures and schematic drawings, and provide reviews of the underlying theory. Included are a brief overview of color vision and a synthesis of the various systems.
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