Edwin H. Land Color Vision Teaching File Kodachrome Slides Scientific American For Sale

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Edwin H. Land Color Vision Teaching File Kodachrome Slides Scientific American:
$30.00

An unusual and visually striking teaching/archive file focused on color vision, photographic process, and the science of seeing, assembled from vintage Scientific American offprints, Kodachrome instructional slides, and related educational material connected to photographic color theory.

This group comes from the working archive of photographer and professor Neal White and appears to have been used as a teaching/reference file related to color photography, perception, and historical photographic processes.

Included are 32 mounted slides along with Scientific American reprints and related material, including:

“Eye and Camera” by George Wald
Scientific American Offprints
August 1950
Vol. 183, No. 2, pp. 32–41
“Experiments in Color Vision” by Edwin H. Land
Reprinted from Scientific American, May 1959
Additional Scientific American color-theory material and diagrams

The slides include:

Kodachrome process and color reference slides
Color wheels and color charts
Photographic process illustrations
Lumière Autochrome references
Dyed potato starch grain demonstrations
Camera/optics diagrams
Color separation and visual perception material
Miscellaneous instructional imagery related to color photography and vision science

Some slides contain handwritten annotations and teaching notes.

An especially compelling archive for collectors and researchers interested in:

Edwin H. Land / Polaroid history
George Wald and vision science
Kodachrome and color photography
Photographic process history
Scientific American educational material
Photography teaching archives
Analog photographic technology

Sold exactly as found and shown.

From the archive of photographer and San Francisco State University professor Neal White.

Item Specifics / Subjects:
Color Theory
Photographic Processes
Vision Science
Kodachrome
Polaroid
Autochrome
Scientific American
Edwin H. Land
George Wald
Photography Education

Themes:
History of Photography
Color Photography
Visual Perception
Scientific Illustration
Teaching Collection
Analog Photography
Photographic Preservation
Mid-Century Science

Format:
35mm Slides / Printed Ephemera

Type:
Educational Archive / Teaching File

Era:
1950s–1970s

Original Vintage Educational Material