{"id":343,"date":"2007-09-18T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/what-is-this\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T08:01:03","slug":"what-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/what-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a pipe, we know that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/pipe.jpg\" title=\"ceci n'est pas une pipe\" alt=\"ceci n'est pas une pipe\" height=\"352\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first page of google image results for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookofjoe.com\/2007\/09\/this-is-not-a-p.html\" title=\"book of joe\" target=\"_blank\">a search Joe was doing<\/a>. The most striking thing about it is the variation in color among the different versions of the same image.<\/p>\n<p>In my day job as publications guy at the Asian Art Museum a lot of my time is spent doing color correction of images. Most people are aware that what they see in a book &#8212; a reproduction of a photograph, usually made up of different amounts of four colors of ink &#8212; is not going to look the same as the object that hangs on the wall. But I don&#8217;t think most people realize how great the variations can be. We work hard to be &#8220;accurate,&#8221; but it&#8217;s still sobering to hold the printed version next to the original. These thumbnails are a good reminder of the subjectivity of color and the variability of light and lens and ink &#8212; of the photographic and reproduction (print or screen) processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a pipe, we know that. It&#8217;s the first page of google image results for a search Joe was doing. The most striking thing about it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}