Re-coloured iconic images

[FredtheLlama]

This is on the front page of reddit at the moment, and I immediately thought that you guys would enjoy it.

Some very interesting pictures, and I'm guessing some time has been put into colouring them.

Link to album - http://imgur.com/a/Qb8Ts?gallery

Link to thread - http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/28ype2/history_in_color/

 

[Rodchenko]

Interesting link, thanks.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Impressive. Thanks. Yes, a LOT of effort has gone in to colouring them. Frances can tell better than most: her exhibition in Arles in two weeks is hand coloured...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Highway 61]

Not too sure.

Most of those original (not all, but most) black and white photos had been taken using very slow orthochromatic B&W material, with some special lighting conditions.

So, most of them now look terrible once colored.

I'd rather praise what the LC did by scanning their huge Kodachrome collections and uploading them on flickr (The Commons). There you can see some genuine colour iconic stuff.

Or - look at Felice Beato's photos.

 

[bhop73]

I think they look pretty legit, for the most part. Thanks for sharing.

 

[icebear]

I didn't spent any time to dig deeper into this, how the coloration was done etc. The pictures look technically perfect but some of these images are embedded as B&W into the collective memory, I think it is a very strange approach. Just not my cup of tea, not at all.