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MARINA AMARAL'S STARTLING COLOR PHOTOS OF LONG-AGO PEOPLE

Oznell — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:20:19 GMT

Remember master colorist Marina Amaral's painstaking work coloring the photos of Auschwitz prisoners?

She continues to bring history to life with her work.

Here's Annie Oakley as she must have looked to her contemporaries.

New York banana docks, circa 1890-- 1910. Amazing.

Young Kenyan woman in 1909:

Civil War General William Sherman:

I'm totally inconsistent-- I loathe colorized movies, yet I love this authentic colorizing of figures and places in history, because of the way it brings us so close to them!

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spiderw — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:26:59 GMT

What great historical pictures! I do get pictures through e-mail from different people and always enjoy them. Most are black and white but I have received colorized pictures which really stand out. Love history!

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Love my grandkids — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:11:04 GMT

@Oznell Thank you for sharing, those are really quite stunning! I love any photos from the Civil War or that era. I've seen old photos of Annie Oakley but this is wonderful!

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VegasBusinessWoman — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:31:23 GMT

WOWZA!😮 Those are amazing!

Thanks, @Oznell for the trip back in time 100+ years.

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Catiele — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:40:14 GMT

So very interesting. My father used to bring the produce to market at 3:30 in the morning by horse and buggy. He was the oldest of thirteen children. I loved going to the farm. I have a picture of the old farmhouse on the wall.

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Flatbush — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 04:09:07 GMT

Can't get over how realistic the pictures all look. Thanks for posting.

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twinsister — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 04:47:21 GMT

@Oznell Wow - great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

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golding76 — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 05:32:29 GMT

What a novel experience you brought to us, oznell. Thank you so much.

My, but Annie Oakley has porcelain skin and a lovely profile.

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Oznell — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 11:49:51 GMT

Yeah, @golding76 , her expertise as a digital colorist allows her to get extraordinary flesh tones.

I appreciate that she is known for doing meticulous research, so that she is finding out the actual original colors in the items depicted.

Black and white photos (which are almost the only ones I have on display in my house) have their own charm; but when she turns dusty, gray-ish century old photographs into accurate pictorial depictions, it is so moving.

We think, wow, except for the fashions, etc. those people look modern-- they look like any people we might encounter now. But I guess it's more accurate to say, they just look "real" and timeless in their natural coloration...

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Oznell — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 11:56:29 GMT

Jersey shore, 1905

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Oznell — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 11:59:48 GMT

Presumably, this one of the Queen when she was still the Princess Elizabeth of England, was originally in black and white. Looks like the late Thirties?: