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