Photos are
always fun and sometimes provocative!
Recently on
PetaPixel there was a post, Colorizing Photoshoppers Put a New Spin on Old Historical Photos.
...There’s an awesome little
subreddit that has been getting a lot of press coverage as of late. It’s called ColorizedHistory,
and is a 20,000+ person strong community of “Amateur Historians” who are
interested in the idea of creating high quality colorized versions of
historical black-and-white photographs...
The images
are fascinating.
I’m not
sure what I think of this. It’s funny to
say that I associate black-and-white and sepia colored images and hand-colored
images as indicative of the “age” of an image.
For example, I expect all civil war images to be black-and-white. Even in the early 1900s, the images taken of
my family are all black-and-white with a hand-colored image here and there.
Yet, if I
really think about it, my descendants will only see all the “color” photos that
I have taken. Might future photos be
different? Maybe “move” as depicted in
the Harry Potter book series?
It’s also
interesting that many of the black-and-white images seem grittier to me than
their newly colored counterparts? Is
that just my familiarity with some of the images (and so they look “wrong” to
me when colorized) or is there something else going on? Well, we are genealogists and not
psychologists and so I’ll put that aside for now ...
What do you think about colorized
versions of historical black-and-white images?
Thumbs up, thumbs down, not sure?
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