Currently, photography is the simplest and most reliable way to get closer to the past. Although its principles were discovered about 2,500 years ago and photography was established as a technology about 200 years ago, it wasn’t until the 1880s that it started to catch on with Kodak (previously it was just a professional thing). Even so, many early photos were limited by being black and white.
We live immersed in a world of colors, so it is difficult to identify with the black and white scenes of the first photographs, but with a little technology and artistic talent, such as that of an illustrator Sebastian de Oliveira, it is possible to color and give new life to classic historical images. Here we show you 15 color retouched photos that will make you travel back in time to other times.
1. Frida Kahlo, on a boat in Xochimilco, Mexico, 1936
2. Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard on the set of Modern times1936
3. Clark Gable, in his aviator days, 1943
4. Amelia Earhart, 1932
5. American landing in Salerno, 1943
6. Cleopatra Extras, by Joseph Mankiewicz, Rest, 1963
7. Couple posing in front of car, 1940s
8. Actresses in bathing suits, in the 1930s
9. Hal and Betty Takier, dance swing (jitterbug), 1938
10. Clint Eastwood and Manis, on set filming Rebel fighter1978
11. The stripers and late-working Gypsy Rose Lee writer, 1941
12. Taxi driver at the Pigalle site, Paris, France, 1958
13. Brigitte Bardot, practicing dance on the rooftops of Paris, France, 1952
14. Al Pacino and Diane Keaton on the set of Godfather1972
15. Sean Connery, smoking a cigarette during a break in the filming of the straw woman1963
