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BOOKS
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COLORGRADING:

• Color And Mastering for Digital Cinema
by Glenn Kennel


• Color Correction Handbook by Alexis Van Hurkman

• Color Correction Look Book by Alexis Van Hurkman

• 
Colorist's Ten Commandments E-Book by Cullen Kelly

• Digital Video And HD: Algorithms & Interfaces by Charles Poynton

• If it's purple, someone's gonna die by Patti Bellantoni

• The Art & Technique of Digital Color Correction by Steve Hullfish


COLOR RELATED & COLOR SCIENCE:

• Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging by Banterle, Artusi, Debattista & Chalmers

• (The) Art Of Color by Johannes Itten

• (The) Basic Law Of Color Theory by Harald L. Kueppers

• Color Appearance Models by Marc D. Fairchild


• Color Consciousness (direct link to free PDF) by Natalie Kalmus

• Color Design Workbook by Sean Adams & Terry Lee Stone

• Color For The Sciences by Jan Koenderink

•
Color Gamut Mapping by Ján Morovič

• Color Mania by Lars Müller

• Color Problems by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

• Color Reproduction in Electronic Imaging Systems by Michael Tooms

 
• Color Science And The Visual Arts by Roy S. Berns

• 
Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae, 2nd Edition by Wyszecki & Stiles

• Computational Colour Science using MATLAB®, Second edition by Westland, Ripamonti & Cheung

•
Digital Color Imaging Handbook by Gaurav Sharma

• Digital Color Management: Encoding Solutions, 2nd Edition by Giorgianni, Madden & Kriss

• Fundamentals Of Digital Image Processing
 by Anil K. Jain

• Magic & Miracles (SMPTE) 
by  Philip J. Cianci & SMPTE

• Principles Of Color Technology by Roy S. Berns
 
• Reproduction Of Color by Robert Hunt

• Tate: Colour - A Visual History by Alexandra Loske

• Vision Science 
by Steve E. Palmer



PHOTOBOOKS & LINKS (for Look Inspirations):

• American Squares by Leah Frances

• The Democratic Forest by William Eggleston

• Joe Greer Website

• Good Morning, America by Mark Power

• Modern Color by Fred Herzog
 
• Polaroids by Helmut Newton

• (The) Suffering Of Light by Alex Webb

• West Land by Simon Nicoloso

• ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern

•  Joel Sternfeld Website


VARIOS WHITEPAPERS (most of them are very technical, useful for understanding the math and science behind Colorgrading (Operators) and also for look design):

Color Appearance Models


•
CIECAM02 by Moroney, Fairchild, Hunt, et al

• iCAM06 by Kuang, et al

• Modeling Human Color Perception under Extended Luminance Levels by Kim, et al

• Calibrated Image Appearance Reproduction by Reinhard, et al

• ZCAM by Safdar, et al

• CAM16 by Li, et al

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