Famous Old Photographs Restored in Color
Imagine – you’re a self-taught restorer starting your own business. How to get clients? Maybe showing off your skills by colorizing famous historical photos would help? This series, done by Reddit user mygrapefruit and self-taught restorer from Sweden Sanna Dullaway, sure did the trick. They restored 34 black and white photos using a Wacom bamboo tablet and Photoshop. Each photo took them from 20 minutes to 2 hours.
Actually, looking at them brings me to a strange realization that most of the history we know is captured in black & white, nonetheless life itself was as vivid and colorful as it is now. Grass was green, skies were blue, Lincoln was sporting a red bowtie…big deal. So look at these photos and your perception of history will never be the same.
Website: pastincolour.com | photos: imgur.com | via: twistedsifter.com
Abraham Lincoln
Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc
Albert Einstein
Che Guevara
Anne Frank
Charlie Chaplin
Alfred Hitchcock
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Darwin
Marc Twain
August Strindberg
Winston Churchill
Fridtjof Nansen
Victory Over Japan Day in Times Square
Operation Crossroads, Baker Event at the Bikini Atoll
The artist in action:
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I love phoRographs!
WOW!!
amazing
LOVED this!!!
LOVED this!!!
This is FANTASTIQUE!!!!!!
This is FANTASTIQUE!!!!!!
What is the purpose of this? Make the past more real? I think old photos have their own beauty. Black and white is beautiful!
I’m a pro photographer. The work looks great, However! It’s not real. It’s not restoration, it’s alteration. They were never in color to start with. Restoration is fixing a tear or cracks or faded washed out photo back to it’s original state. With younger generation already messed up on what is and isn’t real, changing old B/W photos to color alters history making them think color was at the begninning of photography.
It would be a sad day for someone to colorize Ansel Adams’ photographs.
How did he know which colors were which in the black and white???
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