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Meaning Comes from

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Ideas, histories are built of parts. Combined, recombined. Taken apart for a gear here, there. A phrase, Tones. Related. distorted. We talk and listen to the past. The past we passed through. The past we are making. Nothing is purebred. This isn’t genesis. This is synthesis.

Cormac McCarthy forms words from his landings. Driving, looking, reading. His books holdout the anti-western. Not the formations of Carl Chiarenza, a PhD. worder of photography, photographers, those histories. The only thing McCarthy and Chiarenza share is my studio table.

Pictures Come from Pictures. We do not know who gave birth to the first — or why or how. We can speculate on the cave or on its source of inspiration; we can speculate on how the first pictures were perceived. But we can’t be sure. — Carl Chiarenza, Landscapes of the Mind, 1988.

McCarthy wouldn’t have punctuated it as correctly. Probably wouldn’t have said that much without making a new, better fitting word. That’s why his pictures are formed of letters not shadows.

“the ugly fact is books are made out of books. . . . The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” Cormac McCarthy

Skin Color..

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the color of my hand. It changes as I age, and as I move inside, outside, in darkroom .

I’ve just been sorting old notes on my local drive, finding collected articles that I think must have been for something — just don’t know what. That doesn’t worry me, I collect so much more information, background to some midnight idea that is gone by the morning walk. That walk provides a different direction for the day.

“Despite the importance of reliable skin colour measurements, very little is known about the variability of these measurements and their dependency on the acquisition parameters. The main purpose of this article is to quantify the effect of these factors on the measurement reliability. Knowledge of the instrument settings that produce highest repeatability is useful for other researchers involved in skin measurements, and data on the inter-instrument agreement allows the meaningful comparisons between data sets obtained with different instruments. ” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/col.22230

“Background: Accurate skin colour measurements are important for numerous medical applications including the diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous disorders and the provision of maxillofacial soft tissue prostheses.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/srt.12295

“Human skin colour measurements from four ethnic groups including 188 subjects were accumulated. Five to ten locations of each subject were measured by using two different instruments, a tele-spectroradiometer and a spectrophotometer. Three repeated measurements were accumulated for each
location. Repeatability of the measurements at different locations from different ethnicities was examined using the mean CIELAB colour difference from the mean (MCDM). The colour distribution between different locations of different ethnic groups was also studied by plotting the data in a* b* and L* C*ab planes. Systematic trends were found between different ethnicities and instruments.” http://www.imaging.org/site/PDFS/Reporter/Articles/2016_31/REP31_1_2015CIC_WANG_PG230.pdf

“The principles of color measurement established by the Commission International d’Eclairage have been applied to skin and the results expressed in terms of color space L*, hue angle, and chroma values. The distribution of these values for the ventral forearm skin of a sample of healthy volunteers is presented.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X92903477

So, those are some of the papers gathered. Several more follow the same tenor — I never finished where I was headed, I think, because that work isn’t going anywhere. The use as diagnostic? What I probably wanted had more to do with retouching, color sensitizing, attitude measurement based upon clearly gathered perceptual datasets.

Bringing this all out is the recent form of bullying —

Back to making profiles of photons on paper.