You can find more photos on the artists' pages. Check them out: Jordan Lloyd (@jordanjlloydhq): dynamichrome.com/ Mads Madsen (@Madsmadsench): www.colorized-history.com/ Marina Amaral (@marinamaral2): www.marinamaral.com/ Dana Keller (@HistoryInColor): www.danarkeller.com/ Patty Allison (@imbuedwithhues): imbuedwithhues.wordpress.com/ The Paper Time Machine: unbound.com/books/paper-time-machine

@lili2178

6 жыл бұрын

and look this... i think is the best restorer of photos JM EDICIONES facebook.com/JmEdiciones1/

@javiergoberna64

6 жыл бұрын

wow ty, is really good this guy JM EDICIONES

@anamariafigueroaescobar4990

5 жыл бұрын

El cerebro

@drewfisher1619

5 жыл бұрын

No mention of Sanna Dullaway?

@matthewfritch8058

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not a big fan of Vox or it's politics, but I deeply appreciate this video and the people in it. Thanks Vox.

Suddenly past doesn't seem so long ago.

@Boz1211111

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and it actually is not. i bet we would be mindblown if cameras were present earlier

@ninavigumnam2676

5 жыл бұрын

In future, our grandchildren would make 360° VR photos from the photos we take today, and gift them on our 90th bday. So make sure you take good photos 😄

@vulcanprincess1584

4 жыл бұрын

the 1800s was only 2 or 3 generations away

@bigGaza1

4 жыл бұрын

Umm, Actually it seems the same.

@solo6810

4 жыл бұрын

it never was

The critics are ridiculous. This is truly incredible

@BigVigo

7 жыл бұрын

Mina F yeah true

@stagger9660

7 жыл бұрын

Mina F yes

@thesonicravn870

7 жыл бұрын

Mina F They do have a bit of a point though. One of the things that makes the photos what they are is the color. You can't rewrite shakespear in modern english because it deminishes (to a point) the oringinal works. I don't think people should stop colouring photos but they shouldn't replace them.

@BudderB0y2222

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, dipshit, they literally had a minute or so talking about what you just said. Did you not hear the guy say "They're not meant to replace the original, but to be a supplement"? Colorized photos allow us to feel a real connection with the people and events taking placing in old, musty photos and make them seem closer to our lives. It's not the earth that's changed so drastically, it's technology. By seeing Lincoln or Thomas Edison in real color, they suddenly feel real and alive and not like a distant, dead photograph.

@thesonicravn870

7 жыл бұрын

Brendan Berney K bud I am just saying the critics have a point, because some people might try to get colorized version of historical events as the norm. Bashing it for just adding color is ridiculous, and come on insulting someone because they have an opinion.

How is this messing up history? The world has always been lived in color

@panosveto5729

3 жыл бұрын

Because its not 100% accurate the colors . They didn't know what color had the original photo only they do a close guess . For example if they recolor a parrot they will put the most common colors of his species .

@in_99

3 жыл бұрын

panosveto so you’d rather there just be no color than have some of the colors be slightly wrong?

@yashironene5170

3 жыл бұрын

True

@yashironene5170

3 жыл бұрын

@@panosveto5729 I tried it. I transferred a picture of my grandma in a sweater she gave me. The sweater was green. It worked! The black and white photo of my grandma in the green sweater was accurate

@user-yk6xx9dv5z

3 жыл бұрын

What? Didn't you know colors were invented in the 20th century??

I’ve colorized some photos myself, and being honest, the hardest part wasn’t the colorizing itself, but it was finding the accurate colors for stuff.

@praneelgogoi7769

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I mean, you can't get a lotta data from black and white photos. In my opinion, finding the colors for the Roman statues or anything like that, is easier because you can always just check it out using infrared or something.

@bubaq3713

4 жыл бұрын

@@praneelgogoi7769 can you elaborate please?

@NOSTI2ADAMUS

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed! There's a lot of research behind these colonization, such as finding out what color the uniforms were in WW2 for the French, accurate skin tones from actual colored photos taken at a later time when the tech was available, etc..

@bulletsfordinner8307

3 жыл бұрын

@@praneelgogoi7769 you know that Zones of Color exist right? Professional photographers/restorers and archivists know about the Grey zone of color.. It's supposed to be a guide into what gray color represents.. Of course it's not 100% for that you needed some technology

@spyromatt

3 жыл бұрын

spot on! research, research, research

Seeing the transition from black and white images to their colourised counterparts is really interesting.

@janaekelis

7 жыл бұрын

GarethPW I agree but the old souls who believe anything made should be untouched (these are people who hate science) have a huge-ass problem.

@nicholasvsjesse

7 жыл бұрын

Junko Enoshima I'm sorry but that's completely wrong. They don't hate science, they love tradition.

@ThePrickTrollSpammer

7 жыл бұрын

+Junko Enoshima You really spoke my mind. I really hate those people. It's not the original black and white images get lost, they're just being digitally copied and the copies get touched for the better of mankind

@ThePrickTrollSpammer

7 жыл бұрын

+nicholasvsjesse I love tradition too, but does that mean I should try to forbid people from reviving and the past and making it clearer? As long as the original black and white versions of the pictures will be carefully preserved after their colorized versions are made, I think colorization of the past is actually a really good thing

@Archspore

7 жыл бұрын

I'd like to point out that the actual process takes far longer than can be shown in a few seconds, even if sped up. In this video, they essentially placed the black and white version over the colourised image, then rubbed away at it to reveal the bottom layer.

I feel like they should start showing colored historical photos in schools. Just watching how the colors came gave it life in my opinion, it made me actually feel these were actual people, (they were of course but you know what I mean) not some history page. It might insight people to care more about the past to see them as someone who you could pass by on the street, and even be friends with.

@__655

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@gift_for_el6396

5 жыл бұрын

Preach it my human friend, i too feel like it would at least trigger some sort of interest for the next generation about history. We need a new perspective of view, and thanks to that artist for making it one step closer to succeded.

@imjakepaul4497

5 жыл бұрын

Agree

@LadyIno

4 жыл бұрын

A very good idea. Colors add emotion and importance to people, they create a better contrast between them and their environment. You can't "overlook" them, every face comes to life. And if you are emotional interested in someone, you will more likely remember what happened to them. It would really be an entirely different experience if history books were being colorized.

@saltedcaramel88

4 жыл бұрын

@Constantine Pimentel can we colorized a video?

In future, our grandchildren would make 360° VR photos from the photos we take today, and gift them on our 90th bday. So make sure you take good photos 😄

@anosayo4643

4 жыл бұрын

NoobPerson305 well of course that’s to assume we’d have some sort of suitable technology for that by then lol. And if not, we already have technology that lets us view 360 photos/videos on youtube or through virtual reality.

@DGLeo482

3 жыл бұрын

Or see us in hologram. I think that's a good possibility

@alyssax6013

3 жыл бұрын

i would love to see my selfies made with colour again and I wonder how they will figure out the colour of the filters I use

@jerrycargill5062

3 жыл бұрын

Please unborn grandkids, don't.

@sialmeckerjr

3 жыл бұрын

yessir

I feel like coloring these images gives them more of an impact.

@ye7562

3 жыл бұрын

ok

Vox - the buzzfeed that's actually good.

@niek7422

7 жыл бұрын

nah, Vox is nothing like buzzfeed. Vox mainly informs, buzzfeed solely entertains. Go search for the channel CUT if you want to watch an actual good buzzfeed.

@sneedfeed7204

7 жыл бұрын

I've seen this comment a million times

@krombopulos_michael

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Robin San Diego they're actually quite different. Buzzfeed has really low-brow entertainment and also bizarrely decent news reporting. Vox doesn't do original reporting on news for the most part, they tend to either do their own analysis and opinions on politics (which is usually left leaning) and then they do these mini documentaries.

@aarond9563

7 жыл бұрын

Even comparing Vox to Buzzfeed is disrespectful in so many ways lol

@AngryKittens

7 жыл бұрын

No one likes buzzfeed.

I'm left dumbfounded... through these alterations you can really grasp that these things have actually happened idk how to explain it

@jamesfra1311

7 жыл бұрын

Speechless.

@allluckyseven

7 жыл бұрын

Irene Kat Yeah, I feel the same way. There's a disconnection between us and black and white photos. Funnily enough, it's like those are the paintings and the colorized ones are "real".

@julianna1998

7 жыл бұрын

Completely agreed. If I see a black and white photo I think of a time that we're not connected to in history. Just blobs of shadows and light, and like they aren't real scenes or people. When color is brought to them, it kind of amazes me. I could see a black and white picture of an alleyway and think "ok, neat" and then when I see it colorized it's like "wow, look at all those details. look at the different colors of graffiti, and those chalk marks on the floor. this was a "real" place." I don't recognize as much when it's black and white; I don't see a person that was alive at the time, I see someone that's long dead, boring, strict, and formal. Colorizing makes it look like this was a real moment in time, and you notice the life in people and scenery way more than you could have. (even though it was a real moment anyways)

@jogigantiko

7 жыл бұрын

Julianna Tea i had the reverse effect when watching schindlers list, because it was shot in black in white i thought it seemed more real and like it was actually shot during the ww2. When i watch recent WW2 movies that are in colour they seem al little off, i guess because every picture from WW 2 is taken in black and white. But these colourized photos have the same effect on me as you describe, its crazy really :).

@cbreezy

7 жыл бұрын

joost Houterman that's exactly why

I don't get why people would push-back against this. This is amazing, it make all of those capture moment in history filled with life.

Knowing how much work these artists put into colorizing these photos made me feel blessed to be able to look at them for free

Don't see the point of them being untouched. Why? Cause it's all digital, the original is preserved!! Stupid argument imo

@deeznutz32108

5 жыл бұрын

agreed

@sereypedro

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! And plus, is art in its own way!

@Wyljesays

5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking this. The argument literally makes no sense. Some people just try to look for anything to get bothered about 🙄

@VFrozzen

5 жыл бұрын

is not just about adding color to a picture. its about the meaning behind it, changing history as in the video says you get a different feeling from a colored perspective. what they meant by untouched is not miss lead people, the real photos, they dont want that in 500 years museum show a picture with colors without people knowing it was artificially alterated they can be really close to what it would be an actual photo with color but we'll never know and you can go showing an original black and white photo in color just basically change history. nobody is against it, its more of a reminder for people in the future to know that they are not "100%" real. for instance the popular "painting/photo" of Jesus, to this day people believe with their soul that this person in the picture is what Jesus looked like but the reality is nowhere near. they were mislead from generations before. I hope this explains it to you, sorry for my broken english.

@kowikowi465

5 жыл бұрын

@@VFrozzen dont act like it was a artists choice to shoot in black and White.

coloring the photos gives us a way to relate to the photo more, reminds us that the world is seen in color, not black and white knowing how much work/research that goes into them makes these colored photos even more amazing

@metalridleyz

7 жыл бұрын

i.ytimg.com/vi/QECNON-8kn0/maxresdefault.jpg

@NessieAndrew

7 жыл бұрын

Johnson Li (ME) lol

@MrUranium238

7 жыл бұрын

now make them in 3D

@SpaceCattttt

7 жыл бұрын

I see the world in colour, yet, you're still in black and white...

@merlinmediagroup

7 жыл бұрын

We do see in colour, but shooting in black and white is often the right choice. I am a photographer who mainly shoots in black and white, because colour can be a distraction. I want the viewer to focus on the emotion of the picture and often black and white is perfect for that. I think the difference is most of these were shot in black and white because that was the only (or cheapest) option available. It wasn't necessarily an artistic choice but a necessity. I'm sure had the photographers had the option to, they would have shot in colour.

That picture of Charlie Chaplin meeting Helen Keller is just beautiful ♥️

@ye7562

3 жыл бұрын

k

@everythingsfinett3903

3 жыл бұрын

@@ye7562 ?

@peaveyst7

3 жыл бұрын

just thru this video i learned about her.

@galacticquasaur2956

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed man!

@otesunki

Жыл бұрын

yeeee

0:37 It's ironic how his own photos aren't being colorized

@Ok-ov2ul

3 жыл бұрын

Lol he should start colorizing his own photos

@clarajosephine3295

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought😂

@jonbassinger-flores7976

2 жыл бұрын

@M G All the photos that are being colorized by these artists were taken in black and white.

I think, for me at least, it's the fact that the colourization makes history feel a lot less old and the realization that these photos were captured in our world and not in a distant time. plus, we feel like we understand what the moment of that photo was like, what did WWII look like to a regular soldier or, what did the clothing styles look like in the 1800s, what colours were popular, what materials were used, etc. One feels connected with history. No longer does your grandparents story feel so distant.

@idontcaresir

5 жыл бұрын

why should It feel distant? our grandchildren won't and maybe that's for the better

@totallyfrozen

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@hanjizoe2648

5 жыл бұрын

@@idontcaresir So then they can forget about the past and re-do the same mistakes we've done?

@idontcaresir

5 жыл бұрын

@@hanjizoe2648 Forget the past? How its not showing the true past and how it truely looked. Connecting the past to present is how we stop repeating those mistakes. Realizing the past mistakes made us who we are.

@OmnivorousOtter101

5 жыл бұрын

1400th like.

I'd never thought these photos would look so different to me when colourised. I was mindblown by the transitions between the black and white originals and the colorised pics.

@alita8900

5 жыл бұрын

honestly, abraham lincoln colorized looks so fake to me lol

People are so weird. They always try find something to be complained about. -The original photo is preserved because this is digital. -You said that it ruins the historical value of it. What historical value black and white photos supposed to serve? That it's old? -Don't be a negative nanny. Sure it might change people's prespective, but see the other side of the coin. People can appreciate past. Colors and culture can be learned. The feeling of connection is gained. Why are you so afraid of change? You can't stop change. You can either walk with it or being crushed by it. Your choice.

@johnny_eth

3 жыл бұрын

Karens...

@Ugly_German_Truths

3 жыл бұрын

This would be a similar argument like "you should never try to reconstruct how the ancient greeks actually painted their statues, we only KNOW them as white and bleached out, that is how history should always stay... but in many cases the photographer would have loved to take color photographs if only he could have made them as the film did not yet exist...

@hybridAbsol

3 жыл бұрын

Those haters probably couldnt afford colour cameras or palets back then

@Em-td4kc

2 жыл бұрын

This is just like people against art restoration. Like sure the artist definitely wanted you to have to peer through all the yellowed varnish, damage, and overpaint in order to sort of see the moment they captured. Restoration and coloration of these images is what makes us able to relate to and better see these moment in time that they were attempting to capture. The world is a vibrant and colorful place so why not let people view them in a more accurate way.

it's amazing how so many of the colourized photos suddenly made me laugh. it just tore down a wall and gave it a sense of intimacy, like someone could have taken a photo just like this today using their phone. It makes these photos more special because it makes the scenes they show less "special" and "historic" and more like a casual picture from a distant time

This is incredible. I really love the transitions from monochrome to colour. It definitely brings in more life and character to these moments. Its pretty breathtaking.

@theflyingseagull9124

7 жыл бұрын

Jav Tiss oo

@Kasztaran

4 жыл бұрын

You are breathtaking.

@nicholaskenneth113

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kasztaran haha about to type that

The people who think it should be untouched don't have to look at the colourised versions, it's not like all the sudden the black and white originals disappear, they're still there so stop sulking about it. There's just people in this world who want to see the life before them the way those people would have wanted us to see them as.

@lucasqwert1

6 жыл бұрын

And as he mentioned , it is important to know that the colorized photos are just supplements to the original photos.

@reeceduh2744

6 жыл бұрын

I mean even if the originals did vanish they can always make the colour photo's black and white again. But that scenario is very unlikely.

@crocodilepeter

6 жыл бұрын

What about people who paint colour paintings, photorealistically from old photos?, It's no different, If you don't like the colour images , don't look at them...JUST DONT..

@geralaham412

5 жыл бұрын

I agree

@KenpachiZaraki601

5 жыл бұрын

To learn something new, you need to sacrifice your ignorance. I guess people preferring black and white don't want to see the colored versions, to keep their unaffected interpretations of the original photos. I guess they're scared.

This is breathtaking. It feels like you can actually go to these moments in history and it feels like these historical events actually happened and that they dont feel to far away in time from us.

As a colorizer I'm very thankful that you made a video about our craft!

I'd like them to see re-color a old moive

@siennayay1

5 жыл бұрын

that would take AGES

@cleopatrasap2331

5 жыл бұрын

Joseph Stalin well there is this one greek movie (that is pretty famous here in Greece) from the 60' that has been colorized. I would say it took some year but not many

@dae8347

5 жыл бұрын

I got good news for you bub

@halliehurst4847

5 жыл бұрын

Dad’s army has a special recoloured episode that I watched recently at my grans. She loved seeing it!

@andalouchien

5 жыл бұрын

Mughal-e-azam is an Indian movie that was recolored. Granted some scenes were originally filmed in color but the majority of the 3 hours of film is in black and white.

"It's not a substitute, it's a supplement" Yeah, I do agree on that, sure we can't replace the original with a colourised one, since the original really reflected on what and how the year the event was taken.

@ikkarurisan

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, that too. But, most of the historic docs like the pictures mentioned are already digitised and designed for public use...

@IceSanta

7 жыл бұрын

+Ikkaru Risan We can put on some glasses and get two keyboards along with some pop-up windows and then we can use our haxxor skills to remove the pictures from ze interwebz

@XxFallenFlagxX

6 жыл бұрын

The difference is that by seeing a BnW photography, we know that it is not the reality, but a medium. Once you colorize something, you sort of assure that it was close to that color. And no matter what, that will sink in the common representation of an era, influence it. That's how some representations become slowly an evidence, without anybody questionning it. And that's how you create false knowledge.

i loved every single image, it really does make me feel like i've seen someone like them on the street or something... i hope they keep doing it and uploading images. i love it!!!!

0:24 love this one , everyone kinda forgets how Indians were forced to join the British army to fight their war

@gamingthe81

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@harleyokeefe5193

3 жыл бұрын

Jazzy I mean not really, they where members of the British empire they weren’t forced any more than the british citizens where

@vsg9944

3 жыл бұрын

@@harleyokeefe5193 as our empires got devided why don't they give back what they stole from us

@mister_grizzlee5105

3 жыл бұрын

still, the native Brits outnumbered them in many theaters of war

@JazzyCast

3 жыл бұрын

@Rollo Larson oh yea ? Like the africans did from the colonizers ? Like the natives did from the colonizers? And every other country in the world which happens to be a "third world" *now* because of it ? The thing is India was rich in poetry art, technology and civilization unlike Victorian England, all they did was steal the riches of India like the Kohinoor diamond which is still in British museum btw , put it in their treasury and boast about their royalty and make their kids in schools skip the cruel actions of the colonizers so they'll not question their past unlike Germany does and have people like you think they GAVE Indians advantages while killing them and torturing them and stripping them of their identities. I don't blame you though but know the nuance of it bc you're probably not Indian or from a 3rd world country

-nice kind calming voice- YEAH IT'S A SHITLOAD OF WORK!

@star.glazed

4 жыл бұрын

I just came to comment cuz after a year and you got 1.3k likes but no comments :(

@maryfrancescainglet9264

4 жыл бұрын

i felt that A LOT lol

1:12 But adding color to black and white photos isn't *n-*

@gabbehj6486

5 жыл бұрын

haha finally someone commented on tha, I was about to comment that.

@iwasboredonedayagain

5 жыл бұрын

@Mango Closed captioning it says "new"

@rainbowcandy4842

5 жыл бұрын

i though it was my speaker glitching xD

@chenchi6623

5 жыл бұрын

he actually said new but ew part is hardly heard xD

@jaytb5815

5 жыл бұрын

Bruh, That registered in my mind as *"New"* and I didn't notice that...

I was wondering how they did that. Didn’t realize there was so much research involved. Makes me appreciate the colored photos even more. Thanks.

Rarely had I seen such a dedicated and passionated photography artist. His ideas and intelligence are beyond words, and the coloured pictures are absolutely beautiful.

Great work sir... You colorized 3 old photographs for my nephew in Texas, that he gifted me during his wedding ceremony. Two old pictures of my parents and my dad with his B17 bomber and crew circa 1942... These are the best gifts I have ever received. Thank you!

@Ravi-xf8dw

5 жыл бұрын

That's so awesome.

I've wondered how they did this, I always assumed it would be difficult but I never realized that it is, and people do it anyway. And I'm astounded by how it changes things; in museums I've seen color paintings of ordinary-looking people from centuries ago, but I never realized how much black-and-white photographs distance themselves from the present.

@edgepixel8467

6 жыл бұрын

It's not that difficult, it's merely meticulous. And if you have the eye for it you can tell they're colorized, and not the real thing.

@Waruna1301

6 жыл бұрын

If you're interested, check my channel, I'm adding timelapse of picture (it's very raw for now but I'll improve quality of video)

@sciolist3109

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Gepixel It is VERY difficult. The amount of scrutiny that you have to work with is tremendous. I know no one that considers overly meticulous work not difficult work. I feel like those words are at least somewhat synonymous, you know what I mean??

@DarthHater100

5 жыл бұрын

It's so easy to do with photoshop that a retarded infant could do it. You literally just pick brush called Colorize or something and you fill in any color you want.

@FunkkyPanda69

5 жыл бұрын

But if you do it that way it won’t look like the work we saw in the video, it’ll be a preschool art project gone wrong 😂😂😂

1:39 I'm really not used to see him so young

This is so beautiful, had a smile on my face the whole time. All these pictures just seem like normal people that you’d see, it shows them for what they truly are. amazing work.

A picture taken in 1912 looks like it was taken in the 1980's it's insane!

@_Killkor

4 жыл бұрын

Especially that one from the 30s with a man grilling meat, where you can see the same coca cola logo like today - it's just, past seems to blend with the present

@UnknownPerson-ve3uv

4 жыл бұрын

Killkor fr bro an 1862 colorized photo looks like a 2002 photo

wow what an incredible topic, I'm so glad for this channel, the amount of effort, time and twlent it takes to restore these photos is astounding, it's kinda like time travelling, amazing what just adding color can do

@a.marxthekiwi9908

5 жыл бұрын

Truth it’s like they sent new cameras to the past!

@user-qn2ey6gk4m

5 жыл бұрын

Very twlented indeed

@ammarsiddiqui3602

5 жыл бұрын

2 thousand likes but only two replies

This is so cool! Whenever I see old black and white photos, it’s like looking at a different world. It always felt so distant.

Sounds simple right? “Yea, it’s a shitload of work”

@mnowesdg4123

4 жыл бұрын

@@Politicalmeme2 is this a joke?

@kristnovoselic9314

4 жыл бұрын

Was showing this in my history class and didn’t watch it the full video and the teacher wasn’t too happy with the swearing hahaha

@ichaa3tech

3 жыл бұрын

Its technically simple . but to figure out the perfect colors and aura of the photo thats what hard about it . there's a ton of youtube tutorials to this . one time i've spend 40 hours on a photo .

@joeyjamison5772

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Trashmouth.

@nikkelnine

3 жыл бұрын

@@joeyjamison5772 ?

Seeing these photographs in color are awesome! They're not replacing the originals but they're giving us a better perspective of that given time.

Wow! The colorization really makes those time periods look more relatable. Incredible.

@tiffanie4306

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

I’ve done this before as a little free time thing via an app lol, and I can tell you guys that what these guys are doing is extremely hard work (if you wanna do it good let alone perfect) There is so much more depth and different tones/colors in general on a single persons face, than what people realize. I’ve never been able to do it perfectly, mine always came out kinda plastic looking because I depended on a few colors, but that’s because I did it for fun wondering what black/white photos would look like in color. Probs to these guys

I love looking at colourized old photos, it's mindblowing to see and makes me feel like I just witnessed whatever it is I'm looking at.

What I'd give to have a colored photo of my grandfather. My grandfather passed in 1957 when my mother was only 6 months and I really think this would be an amazing gift for my mother.

@rutujasasankar9438

5 жыл бұрын

try searching online for photo restorers Im sure you'll find someone

@JunkiesTube

5 жыл бұрын

If you have the picture, and you're able to upload it somehow, then will colorize it for you, and i'll do it for free 🎨🖌

@jackkraken3888

5 жыл бұрын

Post a link and we can have a crack at it.

@gwilson4328

5 жыл бұрын

Very good idea

@Dojustdoandbe

4 жыл бұрын

Omg this is a wonderful idea

They should give these people photos taken present day that have been converted to black and white, let them colorize them, and then compare their colorized version to the original color photo to see hows accurate they got it lol

@moogle68

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that's part of the hiring process for people in this line of work as well as a god reference point. They mentioned having people to call that live and breathe these artifacts and historical moments, so I am sure there are artifacts leftover that can be photographed with modern cameras to help with color references.

@idontcaresir

5 жыл бұрын

well I'd be easier because they could easily find current references to everything in the image, but still interesting

Who else teared up realising that just colour made you relatable to these people who in the past were unreacheable 'objects'

I love the colourised version! Brings it to life and helps see the image in a different light.

They should definitely be colorized. The people who took the photos did so out of necessity, and would have used color photography if the tech existed, rather than those tedious contemporary methods to add it afterwards. It reminds me of the recent discoveries about Greek and Roman marble sculptures being colored to reflect life. We've always striven for realism in our art, and color is essential to that.

@clowntrooper61

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. As the guy said, they were coloring photos in the past and even films too. Adding the color just shows what we miss out on, when viewing back and white photos and what that day really looked like and what clothes they wore etc

The actual pictures are so amazing and mesmerizing. The coloring just adds that life to old and forgotten pictures. Im in awe

It honestly was amazing to see this because it really did make me grasp (I knew but couldn't picture it) that people looked the same way back when, just with different fashion.

I love this history/design overlap, thank you for sharing!!

Unless theyre actually destroying the original images, let them do it! Its great to see both, the original and the what it may have looked like in colour

I'm an old photographer with an art history and history background. The colorizations in this video are phenomenally good. "Spent a month" on one image? That image will never become stale. The people in those images now have the option of appearing more alive. Altered? Sure. But the originals still exist, nothing is lost. The complaints against this process are exactly the same as were those against colorizing old movies 25 years ago. The process of colorizing old movies was similar to what these artists are doing. Step one: make the best cleanest duplicate of the original film. Step Two: colorize. Colorized movies made then were a bit cheezy, often just a few colors. People who didn't know liked them, initially they seemed neat, but in about twenty minutes the low quality colorizing was awful. The real benefit of that process was Step One: restoration of the best possible closest to the original copy. I've seen a lot of old movies, really good prints are rare, often classic movies survived in multiple generation copies of terrible quality. (One example was Carl Dreyer's Joan of Arc with Danish subtitles--that's the only way we could see that movie.) What's really good about this otherwise cheezy colorizing was that technical problems like shutter stutter, the usually very subtle up and down vibration in many films, can be fixed when making the digital copy. With these still images the more research these artists do as they colorize old photos the better the result, and the greater the contribution. What would be helpful would be footnotes, these colors are accurate because of these sources.... these colors are best guess.... What I really appreciated was how going from black and white to color the people in the photos became more-- not so much real--as recognizably like me and people I see everyday; exactly as they once had been. It does what history should always do, make it live again. What no one says about the digital world is that until the advent of digital capture, the colors available in different media were very limited. TV and film were connected to dyes and phosphors. I used to photograph art, oil paintings cannot be accurately reproduced with film. Oil paints included colors that were not recordable. Film was like watercolor. Reproduction was usually magazine 4 color. Most experienced photographers feel a bit sick looking at magazines, all we can see is all the colors that are not there.

@thesleepydot

4 жыл бұрын

WillN2Go1 I agree up until the part where you lost me... 😅

I find this absolutely facinating. I do appreciate the original photographs, but adding color to these images is chilling when you think about the world events some of the photographs are taken in. It makes you realize how not very distant they are to you as human

Respect for the quality of work involved!! :)

it's so silly that there is actually backlash against this.. it's like people's attachment to things is so strong that it makes them totally irrational lol. I could maybe see people getting upset if they were burning all the original photos in a big bonfire or something, but I don't think that's happened yet..

@DirectorTaffy

7 жыл бұрын

Yet....

@wardipadi

6 жыл бұрын

i agrer.. as if the originals were replaced and deleted forever.

So you really can turn your childhood hobby of coloring books into a profession!

@MagicalFruitBasket

6 жыл бұрын

I also remember having the need to thoroughly analyse historic records and consult professionals to help finish coloring books.

@josh-cg8tz

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah slightly more complicated but sure bro

@scrollingdownonlytofindcom2663

5 жыл бұрын

Like that compares to how complicated this job is.

@JoseMejia-dt8mq

5 жыл бұрын

The matter is this guy turns old pictures into realistic ones, only a true artist can do that. A simple colorization will look kind of duddle but achieving a realistic result would take a real knowledge of painting techniques, hours and even days.

@bokehintheussr5033

5 жыл бұрын

Yes its called being a hipster.

Thank you so much Vox for shining a light on colorizations! Glad to see my hobby getting some exposure!

I had some work commissioned by Mr. Madsen a couple of years ago and could not believe the result I got back. Being able to see my great-grandmother I never met in color was amazing and made an incredible gift to a few of the older relatives.

I know it sounds dumb, bit when I imagine what it would have been like a long time ago, I see it in black and white

@Thumbsupurbum

7 жыл бұрын

When I was a real young kid, maybe 5 or so I remember asking my grandma if people saw in black in white back then. That still makes me laugh.

@Laurarat

7 жыл бұрын

EmHo I do too

@SubfeedSub

7 жыл бұрын

Yea, its the only thing we can think of back then, we have only seen the past in Black and White, so our brain doesnt know how to construct it with colors, as we clearly never saw those colors.

@sever9268

7 жыл бұрын

we might be right tho. there isn't proof that the past wasn't in black and white. I'm kidding btw.

@keanu4489

7 жыл бұрын

EmHo You just need to start watching movies in the past with color

Criticizing something like this is so stupid. There's nothing special about black-and-white pictures. They're just black-and-white because we hadn't figured out a way to take color ones. So making them color is not only cool, but it's also about making them timeless.

@hillaryh.8975

5 жыл бұрын

That's not true. Photographers had the ability to shoot in color since the early years of the 20th century. National Geographic published color photos taken from Autochrome plates, first commercially available in 1907. There is even an actual color Autochrome of Mark Twain! Kodachrome was introduced in the mid 1930s, and some of the most impressive color documentary photos were taking by the photographers of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information in the late 1930s and 1940s. Most of the photos shown being colorized in the video were taken when color WAS available, and at least some of the examples represent the choice of the respective photographers rather than limitations of technology.

@drsnova7313

5 жыл бұрын

The reason for that is not black-and-white vs. color, but analogue vs. digital, and falling prices per picture in general. Back then, you made your pictures count, and didn't a machine-gun-spread of photographs.

@thebasketballhistorian3291

5 жыл бұрын

Color is cool yet your profile photo is in black and white, lol. I tease. =)

@mr.butterworth4216

5 жыл бұрын

*There is plenty special about black and white! The use of light and shadow to create a dynamic image was an elemental art form long after color film was available, and is to this day. Reference the work of Ansel Adams, or the film noir movement.* *Black & white photography aren’t just pictures without color. It’s a separate discipline from color within the practice of photography, which focuses on a whole separate spectrum of elements of a subject. Come on people, think.*

@fearlesscrusader

5 жыл бұрын

@@mr.butterworth4216 , you are quite right. I'm surprised at the ignorance in some of these comments. I thought it was common knowledge that many professional photographers today use black and white for exactly the reasons you gave.

I think the skill these people have is incredible, and I too believe it really does shine a new light on history, suddenly it feels much more relatable and almost tangible. Great video.

Thank you everyone who works at Vox! This was fantastic.

2:53 funniest thing that you could write on bombs.

@europeansovietunion7372

7 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of Easter eggs in this photo.

@mineyoo1999

7 жыл бұрын

Singlerainbow Back then they had no Wikipedia LOL.

@emerald1541

7 жыл бұрын

(Those aren't bombs, they are cannon shells) More precisely, artillery shells, (Look behind them)

@wwhattt

7 жыл бұрын

TheEmeraldSkies I called them bombs because I know they explode. Didn't know the actual term for them.

@emerald1541

7 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, at the first look i also thought they were bombs.

wait but wasnt the world black and white in the past

@B-max.

7 жыл бұрын

shusshhh, don't tell them!

@CONNER_

7 жыл бұрын

blackened white

@DetectiveAnoose

7 жыл бұрын

joey stalin it wasn't black and white pshhhh. It was either white and gold or black and blue.

@lordroyaltee

7 жыл бұрын

joey stalin your world perhaps

@serjhell5643

7 жыл бұрын

joey stalin hitler?

Fascinating projects and excellent video showcasing them! Looking forward to getting the book for a gift to family.

it's so much easier to connect to history this way. i see one of these photos and it's like, oh my god, that's a person. a regular human being i could see on the street. i recognize the look on their face, i can relate to how they might be feeling, i can truly imagine what it would be like to have lived back then. it's so strange how such a little thing can make us realize that people have always been people.

i wish to become a historian when i become older, and i'm really defensive of history and its importance and i'm also a bit sentimental about time and mortality so it makes sense on how i would cling to history in such a way. but, anyways, these colorized photos astonish me. like, in a way i can't put to words. i try my best to get people to view history in a different light than they usually do and see each historical figure as a person-- just like us, but in a different time-- but when you look at these pictures its so in your face. they lived just like you. they laughed. they loved. it's amazing. what the hell-- i'm tearing up because of this tf. i just-- i love history, and i profoundly appreciate anyone who does these videos.

@briannadavies4806

6 жыл бұрын

tyranny I feel the exact same way. I think these photos are a beautiful way to get people to realize that our historical figures were just... people.

@CJ-dx4mq

6 жыл бұрын

It’s good to learn history in a young age like me.

@jedidiahslaboda5620

5 жыл бұрын

I like fried crispy milk

1:14 "Adding colors to black and white photos isn't n-"

@aniket3340

7 жыл бұрын

Adding colours to black and white photos isn't new.

@Hyuzuka

7 жыл бұрын

LMAAO

@kingjamesii404

7 жыл бұрын

Aniket Mamoriya not what I heard

@RandomlyAwesomeFilms

7 жыл бұрын

Rekt

@cesarperezargota

7 жыл бұрын

Wait what? I don't get it

Amazing work, I remember the first time I saw one of this digital colored pictures, I was shocked of how "present" it looked. I'm a big lover of history, it was an amazing feeling.

Color provides so much more detail. I can still look at a black and white picture and say wow, looks like this was taken just today. Color just adds more detail, sometimes reveals things such as discerning shadow from mud, dye from non dyed clothing, various types of metals, materials stand out. It simply provides more detail.

when I was little I thought the world was only black and white before like 1960 when someone invented color and then the world had color

@Bluepup007

7 жыл бұрын

OMG!!!! Same here!!!!!

@kylewowry5356

7 жыл бұрын

TheNeonWhiteOne same

@GamesFromSpace

6 жыл бұрын

Is your name Calvin? Do you have a stuffed tiger named Hobbes?

@FabulousCthulhu

6 жыл бұрын

thats oddly poetic

@katelynbrown98

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Who pays artists like Jordan to do the hard work?

@imfrommanndame

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Griffin The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They seem to pay for anything

@5pctLowBattery

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Griffin I overheard a dad tell his 10 y.o. daughter to be realistic , "there is no future in being an artist, no money to be made". After she told him she wants to be a artist when she grows up. A doctor, engineer or top manager at a corporation is what he demands she pursue.

@JustDom

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe companies want to use their coloured images for maybe a newspaper or book or something and then they pay them to put it in, so the more images they colour the higher the chances of them getting paid is. But that's just my theory...

@BankruptGreek

7 жыл бұрын

justmejr315 but it's true anything not into engineering, electronics and programming has no future, as they will eventually be substituted by AI. now in this decade or even the next, but maybe in 30-40 years

@5pctLowBattery

7 жыл бұрын

Different you need people in various fields. The world doesn't work with just engineers and scientists.

The thought and care put into restoration is great! I still love black and white photos, but this does an interesting thing psychologically which I love.

This is a beautiful art and I appreciate work of those people who can bring those photos to life .

Now completely colourise a black and white film

@haywoodjblome4768

7 жыл бұрын

Tenebris Scarrow There are films that were completely colourised

@RealTalkWithSSG

7 жыл бұрын

Look at a film of Berlin filmed in 1914, it's absolutely beautiful. It's on KZread.

@ineffablemars

7 жыл бұрын

There are many colorize black and white films.

@JordansBeauty22

7 жыл бұрын

Alright Satan lets hold on a minute 😂😂

@MoonSafariFilms

7 жыл бұрын

Colorizing films is different because those are crafted by artists and their visual design is intrinsically linked to the medium they were made with. It was tried back in the 80s and there was a huge backlash. Go watch Citizen Kane or Night of the Hunter to see how different the visual language of black and white is from color.

This was such an excellent video, thank you for making & sharing it with the world

This is amazing. Truly makes the pictures feel a lot more real and relatable.

Honestly the work that these people do is amazing. Just the amount of time and effort it takes is insane. And the transition from the black and white to the colorized is mesmerizing.

@erichhartmann1

5 жыл бұрын

AMK 347 Trust me. This guy in the video talking about how apparently difficult it is is definitely a high school drop out who is desperate to make enough money so tries to make it sound like what he does is amazing. When I was 14 in grade 8 I figured out how to do this stuff no problem and they’d look amazing like they were an actual colour photo. All you need to do is place the photo in an app/program and be able to edit it then grab the pen tool, select the colour you want and set the opacity somewhere from 5-50% depending on how thick the colours will need to be to stand out well and look legitimate. Way easier then it may look or may be said to be.

This is truly magical! Lots of ❤ from Egypt.

I came across this as a suggestion after watching some collections of colorized prints. Pretty cool, informative video of the work behind it, Vox. Nice.

I want a VOX sticker :(

@uchster9

7 жыл бұрын

me too

@calistawaluja3070

7 жыл бұрын

ME TOO

@nikkagaddi7225

7 жыл бұрын

i want to put it into my laptop

@zero4337

7 жыл бұрын

same

@hyun631

7 жыл бұрын

aersen sammme

who paused the video on every picture?

@felipe_figueiredo

5 жыл бұрын

this video gives me a greate wallpaper folder :D i.imgur.com/OarSM3X.jpg

my god this was a magical video! My heart throbbed in every photo, its like I actually jumped back in time. It feels weird and funny Thank you for sharing this and to the people coloring, God bless ya! this is absolutely wonderful.

I love this. It is totally way more relatable when seeing the coloured image and I think that’s really important. It had an effect on me in a way that made the past feel less further away, and I feel more connected to the people in the coloured images. That’s a wonderful outcome so kudos to the technical artists. The limitations on technology at the time shouldn’t cause us to think we shouldn’t use the technology we have today to see what was seen with the human eye back then.

I feel like this process would be particularly effective for WW1 remembrance. Since it was overshadowed by WW2 and written off as just a shitshow where soldiers were sent to be cut up by machine guns by incompetent generals, it is simply written off but looking at colourised photos really brings the whole conflict to life.

They are stunningly beautiful. Really beautiful. The majority of 'colourised' pictures that you see, look like black and white pictures with a few colours added. *Your pictures, Jordan, look like colour pictures.*

The color really does create a connection between Me and the subject/period. More so than in black and white because that alone makes it feel "different" than me

I do this myself, and it's really quite fun. It's like a coloring book, except you get to interact with your favorite historical figures! I understand the historians who argue against it, but if you do your research and don't make a regular door bright pink or something, I don't see a problem. The original black and white is still there. The color photo merely adds another dimension to it.

I can barely color a piece of paper.

I think critics of colorization do have a point, but pro-colorizers do have too! I think it would be best to always refer people to the uncolorized version when showing a colorized one - this way they can decide for themselves how much "history" is altered by colorization. A really good video. Very information-rich and fun to watch.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. It brought tears to my eyes

Terrific video. Thank you so much as I wondered about this. Incredible detail.

I was just looking at an article online about restored photos. All this came to my mind. So cool

This is amazing; you may have just taken my life on a brand new path. Thanks Vox! Much (very much) love!

It takes someone with a keen eye to do a finished photo. It's an art in itself. Love this video!

It's an honor to look at those times and feel how far we've come. It spurs up me ❤️☮️

The only thing I think about is how many people are dead in each photo

@yoolkiie

7 жыл бұрын

Random Cat yeah or they can just be really old.