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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Category: Arts & Culture, History

9 Responses

  1. 1
    AStev says:

    Is that what color Churchill’s eyes were?

  2. 2
    Andy says:

    I love these. I always thought that Lincoln wore black though. That’s probably because of all of the B/W photos.

  3. 3

    I thought that mid-80s-Ted-Turner was the only one that thought that colorization was a good thing.

  4. 4
    kjkillercom says:

    Very nice! This makes the pictures seem so unreal, probably due to me being used to them being only black and white.

  5. 5
    Carr says:

    Never noticed till it was colorized that Darwin looks just like the old guy from Home Alone with more beard.

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    Miss Katie says:

    Stunning! I love them all, except the first one. Why does it look like Abe’s wearing blush?

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    Beet Salad says:

    Put Einstein in baby blue and I just want to hug him.

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    Tom1969ca says:

    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…

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