Historical photographs get a 'colorized' makeover - in pictures
Do historic photographs look better in colour? The colorizers think so. Skilled digital artists such as Sanna Dullaway and Jordan J Lloyd are keen to remind us that the past was as colourful as the present – and their message is spreading though Reddit and Facebook.
• Read Jon Henley on the colorizers
• Read Jon Henley on the colorizers
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Civil rights movement: The march on Washington, 1963. Photograph: Warren K Leffler/Library of Congress
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The march on Washington 1963. Colorization from a black and white 35mm film negative, courtesy of the Library of Congress, by Jordan J Lloyd/Dynamichrome
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Three farmers swig bottles of Old Milwaukee lager, 1941 Photograph: Arthur Siegel/Library of Congress
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Colorization from a black and white negative nitrate, courtesy of the Library of Congress, by Jordan J Lloyd/Dynamichrome
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A nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 25 July 1946. Photograph: Library Of Congress
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Colorization of the Bikini Atoll nuclear explosion by Sanna Dullaway.
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The Great Depression: a country store in North Carolina, July 1939 Photograph: Dorothea Lange/Library Of Congress
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A lazy Sunday at a country store in North Carolina. The store owner's brother stands in the doorway. Colorized by Jordan J Lloyd/Dynamichrome
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Abraham Lincoln circa 1863. Photograph: Library of Congress
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Abraham Lincoln circa 1863, in colour. Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
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American Civil War: Union Captain Cunningham, 1863. Photograph: Library of Congress
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American Civil War: Union Captain Cunningham, 1863, in blue. Colorization from a black and white wet collodion glass plate by Jordan J Lloyd/Dynamichrome
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Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street, June 11 1963. Photograph: Malcolm Brown/AP
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Colorized photograph of Quang Duc's self-immolation by Sanna Dullaway
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South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam on 1 February, 1968. Photograph: Eddie Adams/AP
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The execution of a a Viet Cong officer, colorized by Sanna Dullaway
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A portrait from Dorothea Lange's documentation of the Great Depression. Pictured is a resettled farm child from Taos Junction to the Bosque Farms project – a piece of land acquired by the Federal Resettlement Administration that year to house Dust Bowl refugees. Photograph: Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress
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Dorothea Lange's documentation of the Great Depression. Colorized by Jordan J Lloyd/Dynamichrome
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