Too Cool! 54 “Colorized” Photos From Last Century…

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

Thats a mystery only sherlock can solve!

Those are great pictures. Looks almost to be taken in modern times.

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
What's Mycroft Holmes doing there with Goebbels?

And Eddie Marsan standing directly behind Goebbels.

Wow Sophia Loren

These pictures are beyond cool S&F! Marilyn Monroe & Elizabeth Taylor were stunners for sure I love Marilyn Monroe, when i have my hair curled everyone says i look like her which is the best compliment ever! lol! I have quite alot of memorabllia of hers too.. These pictures really do show how the world really wasn't that different back in the day too now..

originally posted by: dbledged

originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
What's Mycroft Holmes doing there with Goebbels?

And Eddie Marsan standing directly behind Goebbels.

Oh...I'm thinking Mycroft, which means the British Government is somehow involved!!


Just to get back on topic, the colourising may affect the integrity of the original images, but...they sure humanise them on the other hand.

Great pictures excellently hand finished.
S&F

a reply to: JohnnyCanuck

...they sure humanise them on the other hand.

Some in those photos would need more than just color to be "humanised"

But you right... it sure does the job very well.

Here's my colorized Hitler with different clothes, no mustache, and Brad Pitt's hair:

originally posted by: RUSSO
a reply to: loam

True.

Also, the look of Lee Harvey Oswald and Joseph Goebbels are very telling.

There a bit of reasoning to the Life Magazine Photo of Joseph Goebbels

one of his many propaganda Seminars aka anti Jew mostly

The moment as it was taken he found out the Photographer is Jewish

I want more! In the link if you scroll to the bottom there are links to the artists websites where you will get more. But...I still want more... I mean more more...

a reply to: RUSSO

Thanks for these. They've made my day.

The Walt Whitman one is more alive than any monochrome photo I've seen of him.

I like this because even though we look at the B&W as artistic this is how they saw the world then so why not get a different perspective on things. I think I sometimes forget that everything wasn't so drab and dull during those times. I think we only feel B&W as artistic because we have the between the 2.

a reply to: RUSSO

I am mostly liking the Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

Wait ... was there someone else in the picture other than Jayne?

originally posted by: Blue Shift
Here's my colorized Hitler with different clothes, no mustache, and Brad Pitt's hair:

What's really interesting about this is that we have come to regard pictures of Hitler as almost a caricature of evil...helped not in the least by Charlie Chaplin and his 'Great Dictator'. This guy looks pretty normal. Cold, but normal. Who'd know?
Thanks much.