{"id":13362,"date":"2018-12-16T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2018-12-15T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T19:30:23","slug":"a-colourful-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-colourful-book\/","title":{"rendered":"a colourful book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spencer’s Colour Photography in Practice<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. It was the 1970s and photography was growing in popularity with magazines, books, chemicals, printing paper, retailers, camera collecting societies, galleries, and studios popping up everywhere. In March of 1972, I stopped by the local Classics bookshop in Montreal and bought a copy of Colour \u00a0Photography in Practice<\/em><\/a>. My book was a revised and reprinted edition of D. A. Spencer’s magnificent 1938 book published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons<\/em> shortly after Kodachrome<\/a> hit the retail shelves and revolutionized photography. The modern updates in it are by Messrs Mannheim and Hanworth while printing and publishing was by Focal Press<\/em><\/a> of London and New York. The 409 plus pages are heavy with the written word alleviated by some black and white diagrams and the occasional colour insert – no photographs.<\/p>\n

Spencer must have been a fan of Alice in Wonderland<\/em><\/a> since his book offers many quotes from Reverend Dodson’s wonderful children’s story. In Spencer’s revised book on colour photography, the trio of authors begin at the very beginning with a couple of chapters on what colour is and how we see it.<\/p>\n

The book offers a detailed view of the two main film-based processes (subtractive and additive) and how we used them back in the early 1970s. A worthy addition to the library of any photographic historian. Read from cover to cover, the book will give you a sound grounding in colour and colour photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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