Jan 18, 2012
10 iconic portraits come to life with realistic colorization
In promotion of her photo restoration services, Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway exercised her skills on several classic images, adding color with remarkable realism…
(via The Daily What)
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Is that what color Churchill’s eyes were?
I love these. I always thought that Lincoln wore black though. That’s probably because of all of the B/W photos.
I thought that mid-80s-Ted-Turner was the only one that thought that colorization was a good thing.
Very nice! This makes the pictures seem so unreal, probably due to me being used to them being only black and white.
How funny! I was just remarking that it made them seem MORE real, and not just like characters in a book…
Never noticed till it was colorized that Darwin looks just like the old guy from Home Alone with more beard.
Stunning! I love them all, except the first one. Why does it look like Abe’s wearing blush?
Put Einstein in baby blue and I just want to hug him.
Excellent work; however, as a strictly artistic point I think the last one is better in B&W – if you know the history of the shot, the photographer took the picture to illustrate the hopelessness and despair of the Great Depression, and the starkness of of the black-and-white better conveys that intent than the soft, warm colors do…
The color gives each person a bit more distinction to thier character and very well done at that. Abe throws me of a little with a bit of too much color but yet again it adds a unique perspective to what we usually think of him wearing.
teddy roosevelt is holding that baby left handed. as a lefty, i always notice things like that. was he left handed? these pics are amazing in color. it makes them more “real” somehow.
unlike a lot of hopelessly oversaturated garish colorized photos these are very nicely done, however I am still a big fan of Black & White
Try as they may it always has that colorized pastel look to it. It never looks like real life color.
Nothing like putting a picture of a smiling mass murderer in with great world leaders and celebrities. Stop treating Che’ like some kind of hero…he’s a mass murder…this is not politicization this is historical fact that is documented beyond the point of deniability.
You nailed it.