Books on the Chemistry of Colour Photography

[ChrisGalway]

I came across this book:

https://ia803208.us.archive.org/1/items/The_Chemistry_of_Photography_From_Classical_to_Digital_Technologies/The_Chemistry_of_Photography_From_Classical_to_Digital_Technologies.pdf

and wondered what those more knowledgable than me think of it.

And are there other informative books on this subject (apart from the classic Mees and James)?

 

[Alan Johnson]

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[jmrochester]

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Dr. Weissberger was a well-respected and prolific scientist in the Kodak Research Laboratories. He passed away forty years ago at 85.

 

[Alan Johnson]

Also Tadaaki Tani of Fuji wrote more recent books, eg:

Photographic Science: Advances in Nanoparticles, J-Aggregates, Dye Sensitization, and Organic Devices by Tadaaki Tani - Books on Google Play

Photographic Science: Advances in Nanoparticles, J-Aggregates, Dye Sensitization, and Organic Devices - Ebook written by Tadaaki Tani. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read...

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[koraks]

this subject

What subject specifically? It's a vast domain!

 

[ChrisGalway]

What subject specifically? It's a vast domain!

The chemistry of photography, particularly colour photography. The book I quoted seems quite informative but I do not know how authoritative it is.

 

[koraks]

The chemistry of photography, particularly colour photography.

Like I said, that's a vast domain. You'll have better luck looking for more specific topics. Color couplers is a totally different ballgame from silver halide developers, which is yet again different from everything related to gelatin/peptides, which is different from bleaching & fixing...
Anyway, you might want to have a look here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/color-darkroom-books-materials.205220
You'll notice Fujita was mentioned there, which is probably one of the more authoritative and recently modern texts on the subject. However, it pretty much takes a degree in chemistry to understand it.
A more accessible, pragmatic text might be @laser / Bob Shanebrook's book.
The book you linked in your initial post (by David Rogers) sits somewhere in the middle between these two extremes of highly technical vs. highly accessible. I've had a brief look at it and I think it's as good as it gets if you're looking for something that hits the sweet spot and is comprehensive on the cluster of subjects involved. Further reading is easy to determine as your book lists references for the various topics.

I do not know how authoritative it is.

I'm not sure if that's a question of all that much concern. As an introductory text to the mechanisms and some of the main technological trajectories involved, it looks fine to me. For specific subjects, there are evidently better texts, but those will necessarily be more limited in scope, and will be a lot more challenging to read without a solid background in chemistry. On topics where you have doubts as to whether a particular topic discussed by Roger is done so in a representative way, it's a matter of pulling some academic articles on the topic to see what the various perspectives and nuances are. Qualifying the book as a whole as authoritative or not doesn't yield much of an insight; as a more broad, integrative view it'll always miss some of the nuances by necessity. I wouldn't worry about that unless you're in the business of creating color silver halide products of your own.

 

[ChrisGalway]

koraks
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Anyway, you might want to have a look here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/color-darkroom-books-materials.205220
You'll notice Fujita was mentioned there, which is probably one of the more authoritative and recently modern texts on the subject. However, it pretty much takes a degree in chemistry to understand it.
A more accessible, pragmatic text might be @laser / Bob Shanebrook's book.
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Thanks, the link was interesting. I have Bob Shanebrook's excellent book (2nd Ed, big orange cover).

 

[koraks]

Excellent; I understand the 2nd edition is far more comprehensive than the 1st.
In any case, I'd say you're all set - happy reading!