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  • Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin

    Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin Vox 2015-09-18 Estelle Caswell The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin? For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply…

  • Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity

    Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 34, Number 1 (2009) pages 111-136 Lorna Roth, Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of…

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity

    Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies Volume 9, Number 2 (April 2009) pages 141-148 DOI: 10.1177/1532708608326606 Lorna Roth, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This essay focuses on Binney and Smith’s creation and marketing of Crayola fleshtone art products from the late 1950s…