40 "colorized" photos that can turn the idea of a faded past (41 photos)

25 October 2022

Sebastien de Oliveira is a French-Portuguese illustrator and a photographer with an amazing gift for resurrecting the past by presenting him in a new light. Or rather, color. Using Photoshop Artist colorizes old black and white photographs, almost breathing in them life.

1. A woman driving a sports car drives around Hollywood with Thor, a Great Dane, 1961. Photo by Ralph Crane

2. Frida Kahlo on a small boat in Xochimilco, Mexico, 1936

3. Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, 1932

4. Brigitte Bardot in a boat, 1959

5. Clint Eastwood with the orangutan Manis on the set of "Whatever You Say, You Lose" (1978)

6. Photographer Harry Adams with a girl in front of his hairdresser, Los Angeles, 1956

7. Hal and Betty Thacker dancing the jitterbug, 1938

8. James Dean signing autographs in his car in Marfa, Texas. Photo by Richard Miller, July 1955

9. Actress Cathy O'Donnell, 1945 Photo by Martha Holmes for Life And Time Pictures

10. Marilyn Monroe in Henry Hathaway's Niagara, 1953

11. February 9, 1927. Washington DC. Miss Grace Wagner Central High School

12. Parisians on a bus, 1951

13. Richmond, Virginia, circa 1908

14. Actress Katharine Hepburn, photo by Alfred Eisenstadt, 1937

15. Unknown couple, 1942

16. Soldier-veteran of the Napoleonic wars in his old uniform on the anniversary of the death of Napoleon. 1858

17. Diane Keaton and Al Pacino on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, 1972

18. A soldier with a girl waiting for a train at Union Station in Chicago, photo by Jack Delano, February 1943

19. A couple kisses in the front seat of a convertible at an open-air cinema. Taken in 1945

20. Actor Marlon Brando photographed by Ed Clark in 1949

21. University of Maryland students pictured in 1923

22. Drought refugees in California, photo by Dorothea Lange, February 1936

23. Model in a sweater Susan Dannenberg "Wicked". Photograph of Nina Lin for Life magazine, 1947

24. Taxi driver on Place Pigalle, 1958 Photo by Paul Almasi

25. Sean Connery resting on the couch with a cigarette, October 8, 1963

26. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell on the set of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953

27. Photograph by Pierre Jamet, 1936

28. April 17, 1935. Convertible Pontiac at Tanforan Racecourse, San Bruno

29. Miss Lenora Rivero with Anthony Jannus in Rex Smith's plane, 1911

30. Photo by French photographer Pierre Jamet, 1936

31. Elegant Teresa Bonny on a Vuitton luggage train, 1928

32. American women distribute sandwiches to Algerian shooters in the American Red Cross military canteen in Juvisi, 1918

33. Actress Lauren Bacall, 1942

34. Young fisherman, Gloucester, Massachusetts, photo by Howard Lieberman, September 1942

35. Man changing a wheel, New York City, photo by Stanley Kubrick, 1946

36. Lake in Central Park on Sunday, New York, photographed by Marjorie Collins, September 1942

37. Robert De Niro on the set of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, 1976

38. College students try to catch a car near Natchitoches, Louisiana. Photographed by Marion Post Walcott in June 1940

39. Norwegian sailor and a girl from Oswego on a hayfield in United Nations Week, Oswego, New York. Marjorie's photo Collins, June 1943

40. Couple kissing in a movie theater, photo by Weegee 1943