I’ve also created my own Instagram page, History Beyond Black and White, to showcase my own colorization projects. Learning these new skills has been a lot of fun and has helped me get through a very cold winter. I’ve colorized around 15 photos since December and have also been teaching myself how to restore badly damaged photos. I downloaded GIMP, a free open-source photo editing software, and began watching video tutorials on how the use the software. I was anxious to blend my passions for history and photography to see what I could produce with a new hobby. I have dabbled with photography for many years and have been drawn to 19th century history partly because so much of it has been documented through photographs.Ī few months ago I decided that I wanted to get in on the fun. Louis on his Instagram page, Arch City History. I have also drawn much inspiration from museum historian Mark Loerher’s wonderful colorizations of St. She eventually published many of her colorizations in a book, The Color of Time, that now sits on my coffee table at home. I found myself drawn to the artistry of her use of colors to breathe a new life into old photos and often found myself pausing on my timeline to admire her work. This interest was initially sparked by artist Marina Amaral’s wonderful colorizations that she frequently shared on Twitter. I have been interested in the concept of colorized historical photos for several years. The original photo is courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society. Louis’s free Black community before the Civil War. My colorization of Thomas Easterly’s photograph of Bob Wilkinson, a prominent barber and member of St.
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