Epochal retro photos in color

Black and white photographs have been given a new life in color.

People tend to go back to history in an attempt to rethink the events of the past. I would like to “revive” old films and pictures, give them relevance, look at them with a fresh look, in order to see what was previously inaccessible. Therefore, a whole direction in the technique of photography appeared - colorization. This is a colorization of black and white photographs. At first they painted by hand, but the occupation was incredibly time-consuming. Technique did not stand still, technologies became more complicated, and now anyone who has experience with photography and patience can submit their own version of black and white photographs.

Users of the imgur website show their vision of famous people, events and everyday scenes of the past in color, we have collected the best pictures in this article.

(Total 21 photos)

1. Audrey Hepburn, 1953

2. Young Frida Kahlo, 1919 (Photo taken by her father, Guillermo Kahlo)

3. Marilyn Monroe, 1953

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5. Queen Mother Elizabeth I

6. Greta Garbo, 1931 (Still from the film Mata Hari)

7. Sigmund Freud, 1930s

8. Walt Disney with a camera on the beach, 1941

9. Winston Churchill, 1943

10. British soldier, 1942

11. American sailors getting tattoos, 1940s

12. A boy sitting on a World War II naval mine

13. Cotton pickers, 1938

14. The real Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh, 1927.

In the photo, Christopher Robin Milne, the son of the writer, with his bear, both of them became the prototypes of the heroes of the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

15. The real Shrek.

In the photo - a man who had a rare disease - acromegaly, he became the prototype of the cartoon Shrek. This is the famous wrestler Maurice Tiye, nicknamed the French Angel. He was born in 1903 in Russia, in the Urals, into a French family that returned to France in 1917.

16. Model demonstrates underwear, 1958

17. World War II propaganda posters in the Washington Post, New York, 1942

18. Beauty salon in New York, 1942

19. Mechanic and steam pump, 1920

20. Woman with a dog in Harlem, 1943

21. A crowd of students in a Volkswagen Beetle, 1965