War and peace in color: the artist breathed new life into historical photos (29 photos)
21-year-old Brazilian Marina Amaral selected photographs of the most significant moments in world history over the past 150 years and breathed new life into them with the help of colorization. The artist transforms photographs from all over the world, starting with a portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and ending with the famous photograph of the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Saigon.
Soldiers from the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment sit behind a tank. Germany, December 11, 1944.
Warsaw Uprising of 1944. August 1 marked 72 years since the start of the operation.
A French soldier falls from his wound during the battle for the French fortified city of Verdun on February 21, 1916.
A Soviet soldier captures a German soldier during the Battle of Moscow. December 1, 1941.
The photo shows German women with children who were expelled from Poland and had to walk from the Polish city of Lodz to Berlin. December 14, 1945.
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, June 2, 1953.
On June 11, 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc publicly self-immolated at a busy Saigon intersection.
New Zealand soldiers wash socks in wooden tubs during the First World War, May 7, 1918.
Martin Luther King and activist Matthew Ahmann during the March on Washington for civil rights in August 1963.
No. 43 Squadron prepares to fly the British Sopwith Snipe single-seat fighter over the German front line, October 1918.
14-year-old Elizabeth II reads a book by the window.
British Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain returns from negotiations with Hitler in Germany. London, September 24, 1938.
Lyndon Johnson meets with leaders of the black civil rights movement at the White House.
Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald two days after he assassinated John F. Kennedy. November 24, 1963.
A color version of one of Adolf Hitler's many photographic portraits.
American poet and writer Jack Kerouac is photographed for documents during his transfer to the merchant marine. Kerouac joined the Navy in the summer of 1942, voluntarily dropping out of Columbia University.
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis is the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 started the First World War.
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley with their daughter Lisa Marie. Priscilla and Elvis met in November 1959, when Priscilla was only 14 years old.
Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron, was the best ace of the First World War with 80 enemy aircraft shot down.
The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. 1863
US President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir in Yosemite National Park, 1906.
33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman. It was he who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.
Erwin Rommel, German field marshal who was involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. He was forced to commit suicide by taking potassium cyanide.
Left: young John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Right: Joseph Goebbels, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany.
American gangster Alfonso Gabriel "Al" Capone, who became famous during Prohibition in the United States as the founder and boss of the Chicago mafia.
Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck in 1871. Under his leadership, Germany became a modern, united nation.
