21st Hurter And Driffield Memorial Lecture Colour Science and Colour Photography

Abstract

Frederic E. Ives was the first colour photographer to follow consistently the example of Hurter and Driffield, to seek scientific understanding of the photographic process, and to base his colour photographic methods on scientific knowledge. The theory of colour vision and colour photography worked out by Ives following the pioneering work of Maxwell is the basis of modern theories which explain the importance of accurate colour measurement and of the tolerances of the human eye in the practice of colour reproduction. The place of these theories in colour photography is discussed.