tripod for Spectra Pritchard photometer
Date: after 1993
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0214c
Classification: Tripod
Subject:
Maker: Lino Manfrotto + Co. (circa 1969-present)
User: Edwin H. Land ? (1909 - 1991)
Cultural Region:
Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
collapsed: 25.8 × 84 × 21 cm (10 3/16 × 33 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Description:
Multi-function tripod with pivoting head and handle. The legs are in three sections for various height adjustments.
In Collection(s)
Signedon tripod: Manfrotto + Co.
on tripod: Bogen
on tripod: Bogen
Curatorial RemarksThere is a question mark here as to whether Edwin Land used this tripod with his photometer. From what we learn on the Manfrotto & Co. website, it was only in 1993 that the American company Bogen was purchased. This tripod, therefore, would not be the original one used in the early 1980s.
Primary SourcesEdwin H. Land, "The Retinex Theory of Color Vision," Scientific American 237 (1977): 108-128.
Edwin H. Land, "Recent Advances in Retinex Theory and Some Implications for Cortical Computations: Color Vision and the Natural Image," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 80 (1983): 5163-5169.
Edwin H. Land, "An Alternative Technique for the Computation of the Designator in the Retinex Theory of Color Vision," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83 (1986): 3078-3080.
Edwin H. Land, "Recent Advances in Retinex Theory and Some Implications for Cortical Computations: Color Vision and the Natural Image," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 80 (1983): 5163-5169.
Edwin H. Land, "An Alternative Technique for the Computation of the Designator in the Retinex Theory of Color Vision," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83 (1986): 3078-3080.
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.
