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Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized
Hi, my name is Mario Unger. I live in Austria with my wife and I have 2 grown-up children. I work as a photographer, photoshop artist, musician, and mentalist on stage.
I am submitting my work to Bored Panda for the second time. I'm very glad about this and want to share the latest colorizations I have done.
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Actress Marie Doro, 1902
Ella Fitzgerald, 1946, Photography By William P. Gottlieb
Actress And Singer Svea Textorius, 1910
Oscar Wilde, 1882
Christmas Truce, 1914
Female War Workers Feed The Charcoal Kilns Used For Purifying Sugar At The Glebe Sugar Refinery Co., Greenock, Scotland, 1918
Wolf Robe, Cheyenne Indian Chief, 1904
Albert Einstein, His Wife Elsa And Charlie Chaplin At The Premiere Of "City Lights" In Los Angeles, 1931
An Eleven-Year-Old Frida Kahlo By Guillermo Kahlo, June 15, 1919
Sir Winston Churchill
Georges Méliès, Montparnasse Station In Paris, 1920s
It's amazing but in the black in white photo, I didn't even notice the shopkeeper. In the colorized photo, he's the first thing I noticed.
Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, Photo By Joel Bellviure
Sitting Bull By D.F. Barry, 1883, Dakota Territory
A Young Mexican Farm Worker Plays Guitar And Sings In A Coachella Valley Labor Camp, 1935. Photographer Dorothea Lange, Gelatin Silver Print, Collection Of Oakland Museum Of California
An Old Navajo Brave Huddled In A Blanket, Ca. 1901
Destitute Pea Pickers In California. Mother Of Seven Children. Age Thirty-Two. Nipomo, California
American Soldier Opening Red Cross Christmas Box, 1917
Two Nasa Engineers Test A Scale Model Of A Saturn I Rocket In A Wind Tunnel, 1960s
Sigmund Freud By Max Halberstadt,1920
Peter Tchaikovsky
Every time I see colorized black and white photos, I always feel like a hundred years was just yesterday and a lifetime is gone in a blink of an eye...
The Three Polar Stars, 1913
North American B-25s Flies Past Mount Vesuvius Which Erupted On The 18th March 1944, Destroying The Village San Sebastiano & San Giorge, Killing 57
Launch Of Steamer Frank J. Hecker, September 2, 1905, St. Clair, Michigan
Samuel Morse, 1865
Billie Holiday, 1947
First Of Fair Sex To Obtain Motorcycle License In The Capital Washington, D.C., September 15, 1937
I would love to have met her. Wonder if she has descendants and if they're as badass as she was.
Grace Kelly In "Rear Window", 1954
Preparing Spring Flowers For Market, Henry Peach Robinson And Nelson King Cherrill, 1873
Henry Fonda And Sylvia Sidney In "You Only Live Once", 1937
Lauren Bacall And Humphrey Bogart In "The Big Sleep", 1946
Lilli Lennartson In "Pelleas Och Melisande", 1906
A Life Guard, Brighton Beach, NY, Ca. 1901
A Frostbitten Lieutenant Foehles Shortly After Landing From A Flight In 1916
John Wayne And Gail Russel In "Angel And The Badman", 1947
Antietam, Md. President Lincoln And Gen. George B. Mcclellan In The General's Tent, October 3, 1863
I was told that I was related to Gen. Mcclellan. Love seeing this in color. Thank you.
Actress Kay Aldridge
Reminds me of Kiernan Shipka... don't know why because they're not all that similar overall.
Ugo Sivocci In Alfa Romeo 20-30 Es At The 1922 Targa Florio
Golf In Bathing Suits, 1926
An 8th Air Force B-17 Makes A Bombing Run Over Marienburg, Germany, In 1943
Portrait Of Mary Pickford, Signed 1914
The Officer Eslie Williams And His Henderson, Washington, D.C., August 1922,
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait (As 'New Woman'), 1896
Geronimo As US Prisoner, 1905
Mae Marsh, As A Belgian Girl, And A.c. Gibbons As A German Soldier, In Goldwyn's All-Star Liberty Loan Picture, Stake Uncle Sam To Play Your Hand, 1918
Ray Weishaar, Winner Of 100-Mile Race, Norton, Kansas, October 22, 1914
Nadar Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870), 1855
Maxwell Car, 1916
Bristol Beaufighters From (No. 227 Squadron RAF) Attacking A German Ship In The Aegean Sea Near The City Of Kos, 03-10-1943
Judge Jeremiah Black, Ca. 1870
Portrait Of Leonard Bernstein, Carnegie Hall, New York, Between 1946 And 1948
Home-Cinema (Kinetoscope), 1895, Created By Thomas Edison
"Plague Of The Zombies", 1966
Mountain Warfare, Probably 1916
Col. Charles Lindbergh, 1902
Dana Pond Is Painting A Series Of War Portraits. The First To Be Completed Is A Portrait Of General Tasker H. Bliss. In The Background There Is Of One Of The Versailles Paintings Of Napoleon At The Battle Of Wagram, 1919
"The Nibelungs" By Fritz Lang, 1924
Gustav Mahler, Ca. 1909
Austro-Hungarian Imperial Soldiers Sit On The Toilet In 1916
Laurel And Hardy, "Their First Mistake", 1932
Photograph, 1913
Mathew Brady, Ca. 1875
I've always wondered how these artists found the right colour to restore these photographs
Thank you! You need no patience if you love what you do
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Excellent! Great skills - especially removing the scratches (pic. 21)
lot of work in the GENTRIFYING direction. most colours are artificial. just a personal interpretation of yours, mario, here in the XXI century.
I think these are very well done and I upvoted all 89 of them, love them all. My personal preferences are a little bit in those that seem realistic as if they are seen now, but I prefer normal photographs with true colors as well. That doesn't take away the quality of the others though, I really enjoyed going through the whole thread. Good luck in your further work :)
Very beautifully done! I am curious however, how do you decide on fabric colors? Sure military outfits and the like would have been described, but for regular garments? Is there a way to tell given the grayscale or is it just whatever you think suits best? Thanks!!
Just personal taste and feel for colors :)
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I'm a new co-editor of the Military Postal History Society Bulletin, published for 300+ members. Sadly, the last editor died in December. I have a column with a letter from a sergeant "at the Vesuvius Aerodrome southeast of Naples" to his family in California. It is the scene in your "North American B-25s Flies Past Mount Vesuvius Which Erupted On The 18th March 1944." I first saw it with (c) mario unger @ mediadrumworld.com, which is how I found you! Your image is so dramatic and powerful I had to ask if you might consider allowing us to use it and credit you as you wish in our “new” journal. If you allow, we would love to make it front cover photo. That’s not much honor for a highly skilled artist, but it is all I can offer. (No one has paid me yet!) If you agree, we would love to feature your work again. I also like your image of a World War I U.S. soldier with a Christmas box, rolling a smoke!
Wow! Fantastic work. Colours bring things to life. Congrats Mario
I've always wondered how these artists found the right colour to restore these photographs
Thank you! You need no patience if you love what you do
Load More Replies... Excellent! Great skills - especially removing the scratches (pic. 21)
lot of work in the GENTRIFYING direction. most colours are artificial. just a personal interpretation of yours, mario, here in the XXI century.
I think these are very well done and I upvoted all 89 of them, love them all. My personal preferences are a little bit in those that seem realistic as if they are seen now, but I prefer normal photographs with true colors as well. That doesn't take away the quality of the others though, I really enjoyed going through the whole thread. Good luck in your further work :)
Very beautifully done! I am curious however, how do you decide on fabric colors? Sure military outfits and the like would have been described, but for regular garments? Is there a way to tell given the grayscale or is it just whatever you think suits best? Thanks!!
Just personal taste and feel for colors :)
Load More Replies... I'm a new co-editor of the Military Postal History Society Bulletin, published for 300+ members. Sadly, the last editor died in December. I have a column with a letter from a sergeant "at the Vesuvius Aerodrome southeast of Naples" to his family in California. It is the scene in your "North American B-25s Flies Past Mount Vesuvius Which Erupted On The 18th March 1944." I first saw it with (c) mario unger @ mediadrumworld.com, which is how I found you! Your image is so dramatic and powerful I had to ask if you might consider allowing us to use it and credit you as you wish in our “new” journal. If you allow, we would love to make it front cover photo. That’s not much honor for a highly skilled artist, but it is all I can offer. (No one has paid me yet!) If you agree, we would love to feature your work again. I also like your image of a World War I U.S. soldier with a Christmas box, rolling a smoke!
Wow! Fantastic work. Colours bring things to life. Congrats Mario
