Some folks feel, ‘recoloring’ old school photos ruin the feel/mood of the capture, by adding an unnatural modern aspect that tricks the mind. While I can understand that school of thought, I feel firmly that the very thing they despise is what makes the practice great. Now I do admit, some artist over do it, by embellishing certain aspects that are essential to the shot’s integrity. However, when done properly, like most of the pieces below, its almost like time travel. If you’re into that sorta thing. Tell us what you think in the comment section below!
Film icon Audrey Hepburn in 1953.
Jean and Charlotte Potter sit on the beach with their dog in the early 1910s.
Soldiers donning war paint in 1944.
“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” in Egypt’s western desert in 1941.
Jewish women and children arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1944.
Soccer legend Pele in Sao Paulo, 1958.
A cab stand outside Madison Square Park in New York in the early 1900s.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth just after joining the New York Yankees in 1920.
Three soldiers on the watch for the enemy in a rubble-filled building in France in 1917.
An Ojibwe Native American man spearfishing in Minnesota in 1908.
Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen during the Great Depression.
18-year-old Russian girl after liberation from Dachau in April 1945.
Students pile into a VW Beetle in 1965.
Licking blocks of ice during New York City’s 1912 heat wave.
A small child with a puppy in Pleasant Point, West Virginia in May 1943.
The Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana Romanov in 1910.
Coney Island, New York in 1905.
The founder and president of the Limited Suffrage Society, Mary Winsor, holding a sign during the American suffrage movement in the early 1900s.
Flipping burgers in 1938.
A December 1936 sunset over Manhattan from the George Washington bridge.