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Artist Colorizes Old Black & White Photos, And It Makes A Huge Difference In How We See Past Events
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Anybody can use Photoshop, but doing a good job remains a craft. Professional colorist from Brazil, Marina Amaral, doesn't just click-and-drag. Driven by her burning obsession with history, Marina does extensive research to make her colorizations as realistic as possible, too.
Amaral has played with Photoshop since she was about ten. In 2015, she was scrolling a history forum on the internet and discovered colorized photos of World War I. Instantly inspired, Amaral started restoring and putting color into photos that were originally black and white. This allows people to experience the past through a whole new perspective. "Each photo is made to be realistic by recognizing the value behind each one of them, respecting and preserving their stories, paying attention to the finer details and maintaining their original essence."
"Every completed work has gone through long and in depth research, and is supported by the opinions of experts in each particular area if necessary, to faithfully reproduce the original colors and atmosphere," she adds. "My work ranges from simple portraits to complex and detailed images, taken from various historical periods covering a wide range of topics." Continue scrolling to enjoy Marina's wonderful work.
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Ruby Bridges, Escorted By US Marshals To Attend An All-White School, 1960
Cree Man, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903
A Photographer Uses His Own Backdrop To Mask Poland's World War II Ruins While Shooting A Portrait In Warsaw In November 1946
Lewis Powell. He Was A Conspirator With John Wilkes Booth, Who Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Four Female Pilots Leaving Their Ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, At The Four Engine School At Lockbourne AAF, 1944
1940: Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leaving their plane, "Pistol Packin' Mama," at the four-engine school at Lockbourne AAF, Ohio, during WASP ferry training B-17 Flying Fortress.
Banana Docks, New York. CA 1890 – 1910
Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä, White Death
"White Death " because this Finnish sniper record 505 confirmed kills. He survived a bullet in the head and lived 96 years.
Titanic Orphans, Brothers Michel And Edmond Navratil, 1912. They Were The Only Children To Be Rescued From The Titanic Without A Parent Or Guardian
Their father had abducted them from their mother and then he drowned. The mother was found and took them back in the end.
Eunice Hancock, A 21-Year-Old Woman, Operates A Compressed-Air Grinder In A Midwest Aircraft Plant During World War II. August 1942
Roza Shanina, A 19-Year-Old Russian WWII Sniper With 59 Confirmed Kills
Unfortunately, she never made out of the war alive. She was killed by a shell fragment in January 1945, just three months before the end of the war...
The Most Intelligent Picture Ever Taken: Participants Of The 5th Solvay Conference On Quantum Mechanics, 1927
Men Of 72 Highlanders Who Served In The Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison And John Harper, 1853 – 1856
Senator John F. Kennedy And Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy On Their Wedding Day. September 12, 1953
Private Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, Standing Inprivate Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, Standing In Reverence Before An Altar In A Damaged Catholic Church (Santa Maria Degli Angeli). Acerno, Italy, September 1943
Hermann Göring Sits In The Dock At The Nuremberg Trial, 1946
Italian Immigrants Arrive At Ellis Island, 1905
How many of these people descendants are today's racists, anti-immigration and xenophobics?
Winston Churchill As A Cornet In The 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895
A stirring voice for freedom unless one has the misfortune of being Irish.
Queen Victoria And Her Family, Including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II And Empress Frederick At A Wedding In Coburg, Germany, 1894
So, Kaiser Wilhelm II was Victoria's grand son, Nicolas II maried Victoria's grand daughter... the familly meetings must have been fun after 1914.
Faces Of Auschwitz: Janina Nowak
She was an extraordinary woman - she escaped from Auschwitz in 1942, and while she was recaptured in 1943 and brought back, she survived. It's unclear what happened to her after the war. Let's just hope she didn't die at the hands of the Soviets like many others who were rescued from Nazi camps just to end up in Soviet ones...
The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945
How can fools look at these pictures & deny the Holocaust? It's beyond me!
A Group Of Bootblacks Gather Around An Old Civil War Veteran In Pennsylvania, 1935
Now that's something we probably wouldn't see today...young boys hanging on an old veteran's every word. Or boys working at such young ages. But look at the shine on the old man's boot. The boy did a good job!
Sami Girl, 1938, Suenjel, Petsamo
American Infantrymen Of The U.S. Army’s 92nd Infantry Division (“Buffalo Soldiers Division”) Are Photographed At Rest In Italy. April 1945
Some of them settled in Italy after the war, and married italian women. One of the best italian saxophonist James Senese (06-01-45), is half italian and half american, like we used to say in the past, "a war's child". james-sene...e-750.jpeg 
Before And After The Facial Reconstruction Of A Wounded Soldier During World War I
Hiroshima After Bombing
Queen Elizabeth Great Grandmother
Civil Rights March On Washington, D. C. With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Mathew Ahmann In A Crowd
Filthy Thirteen Member Clarence Ware Applies War Paint To Charles Plaudo. England, 31 December 1943
Their leader, Jake McNeice was part Choctaw, and he applied their tribes strong warrior aethetic to his men. These guys infiltrated behind enemy lines to destroy support and supply lines during the war. Very low survivor rate.
School At Anthoston, Kentucky, 1916
In the color one the kids are looking down... But in the original they are looking to the front. Did someone else realized?
Otto Frank Anexo
That is Anne's Frank father and the only one from the family to have survived the Nazi camps. He is pictured here in the attic of the Secret Annex on the 3rd May 1960, the day the Anne Frank House was officially opened to the public.
Bull Chief, An Indian Warrior, Apsaroke Tribe. The Photo Was Taken In 1908 By Edward S. Curtis. He Is Wearing A Buffalo Headdress With Horns
Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen With Wife Pat, And Eleven-Month-Old Son Kent, 1947
Unemployed Lumber Worker (Thomas Cave) Goes With His Wife (Vivian) To The Bean Harvest, Oregon, August 1939
Booker T. Washington
Captured the light gray of his eyes very well. Burgundy tie is a nice touch.
Soccer Team Of British WWI Soldiers Wearing Gas Masks, France, 1916
Brazilian Army Pvt. Francisco De Paula Of The Brazilian Expeditionary Force During The Italian Campaign, WWII
In case you're wondering, the inscription on the shell means "The snake is smoking", which was adopted as the motto of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force along with the moniker "Cobras Fumantes" (Smoking Snakes) after a popular saying that "...it's easier for a snake to smoke a pipe than the BEF to go to war". Well, the snakes were definitely smoking in Italy that year...
Photograph From The Main Eastern Theater Of The War, Battle Of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, And Maj. Gen. John A. Mcclernand, 1862
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria
Looking a lot more alive than most of us think... are the colors of the ribbons are historically accurate?
RMS Mauretania, 1909
Cunard's four screw arrangement was always better than White Star's choice of just three for the Olympic class, due to the fact a rudder is far less efficient if it moves in the wake of a propeller than if it moves in the relatively calm waters between the screws. I mean, sure, the Mauretania class had a host of other problems, like stability issues and vibration from it's turbines, but there you have it. Ironically, if the roles had been switched between the Titanic and Lusitania, each of those ships would have dealt better with the other's disaster - Titanic had transverse coal bunkers so a torpedo hit in the same place would not have set off a coal-dust explosion, and Lusitania's propulsion and steering arrangement would have made a glancing blow with the iceberg a lot less likely. It's debatable however if once hit in the same manner as Titanic, Lusitania would have fared better, because she had taller bulkheads but also longitudinal ones, meaning she listed severely as she sank.
Dick Winters And His Easy Company (Hbo's Band Of Brothers) Lounging At Eagle's Nest, Hitler's Former Residence In The Bavarian Alps, 1945
Dumpu, New Guinea, 7 October 1943. Members Of The 2/2nd Australian Independent Company
