Colorization, or converting a black and white image to color, is a popular phenomenon among modern photographers. What drives people to paint the world around is anyone's guess, but a colorful result is often a great alternative to an already existing monochrome shot. Today we bring to your attention a selection of wonderful old photographs that literally came to life with the help of modern technology.
ColorizedHistory is a project created by photographer Mads Madsen. The social site Reddit employs a group of talented photo artists who are engaged in "decorating" old pictures. The main criteria that they adhere to in their work is historical accuracy and plausibility. This is painstaking work to restore those colors that, due to objective reasons, were not recorded by the camera.
A surge of interest in such photographs was outlined after the Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway published on the Web. Some praised the idea, others scolded, but no one remained indifferent.
The ColorizedHistory collection contains a variety of photographs, most of which were taken in the early 20th century. Here are scenes from Everyday life, historical moments and shots from the life of celebrities. Each photo is another opportunity to look into history. And how it should be (black and white or color) is up to each individual to decide.
Old black-and-white photographs are attractive primarily for their historical value, as a cast of an era. It is always interesting to see how people lived 50 or 100 years ago, their way of life, fashion, work, especially if these are real life pictures, and not something artistic. Well, if it comes to famous events or outstanding personalities, then such photographs arouse not only idle interest, but also historical and scientific.
(Total 25 photos)
1. Photo illustrating class stratification in pre-war England, 1937.
2. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung relax with friends after a bath, 1907.
3. A Soviet soldier shares cigarettes with German prisoners of war, 1943.
4. Photo from Playboy magazine 1975, dedicated to the historical event - the docking in space of the Soviet spaceship Soyuz and the American Apollo.
5. Man-ape, found in the jungle of Brazil, 1937.
6. The evolution of women's swimwear from 1875 to 1927.
7 Driving school, 1953
8. Aerial photography of the assembly point of Soviet prisoners of war in a field near Kharkov, 1942.
9. Just a few decades ago, this is how children flew airplanes. 1950s.
10. The boy and his "transport". USA, early 20th century.
11. Teachings at the police academy.
12. Komsomol construction. Nadym, 1971.
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a child.
14. Alice Liddell - the prototype of the character Alice from the books of Lewis Carroll.
15. Pyrenees. France, 1956
16. Opium party, 1918
17. The first hockey goaltender to wear a mask during an NHL regular season game was Jacques Plante. November 1, 1959
18. Skull belonging to a Roman soldier who died during the Gallic War, 52 BC.
19. BMW in the service of the traffic police of the USSR. 1980s.
You can look at old black and white photographs without stopping, and review them, discovering something new over and over again. And amazingly, it never gets boring!
1. Moscow, the historical moment of the opening of the Olympics-80
2. Yuri Gagarin during a visit to the Carlsberg plant, 1962
3. Gypsy "heals" his back with the help of a bear
4. Acrobats on the Empire State Building, 1934
5. An early photo of an unknown Robin Williams (right) in New York's Central Park, 1974
6. The only photograph of a participant in the Battle of Borodino. Pavel Yakovlevich Tolstoguzov at the age of 117, 1912
7. Test pilot George Aird ejected from the plane after losing control
8 Lipstick Testing, 1950s
In the last century, large lipstick factories hired bald men to serve as living mannequins on which factory workers tested new products.
9. Electricians, group photo, 1918
11. Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks players look for Jack Evans' expensive contact lens that fell out.
12. Polar explorer Peter Freihen with his wife, 1947
13. Recruits of the 7th Royal Hussars learn to balance on wooden horses, 1935
14. Dmitri Shostakovich, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Rodchenko
15. An Iranian girl in a bathing suit - a really rare shot, 1960
16. Little Ernest Hemingway fishing, 1904
17. Moving a high-rise building weighing 7600 tons to build a boulevard in the Romanian city of Alba Iulia, 1987
18. Fawzia Fuad, Queen of Iran and Egypt, 1939
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