Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Famous Black and White Colored Pictures In Color

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway transforms some of the most famous black and white pictures ever captured into high resolution color versions.

VJ DAY CELEBRATION: A sailor kisses a nurse in Times Square, New York City in a shot that went on to become one of the most famous celebration shots from VJ Day (Original picture by by Alfred Eisenstaedt, August 14, 1945)


VIETNAM EXECUTION: No picture demonstrated the brutality of the Vietnam War than this shot of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting Viet Cong Nguyen Van Lem in the head (Picture taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968)


THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR: Colored flames appear to bring the iconic shot of the bombing of Pearl Harbor to life, as does the thick, sooty black smoke


THE BURNING MONK: The flames are all the more real in Dallaway's color version of 'The Burning Monk' who was protesting against the Vietnamese President's pro-Catholic doctrine (Original picture by Malcolm Browne, 1968)


THE AMERICAN DREAM: Bourke-White's contentious shot taken at a Bread Line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky 1937, paints the picture that the American Dream was perhaps somewhat limited to who could achieve it (Original picture by Margaret Bourke-White, 1937)


BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS: Dorothy Counts is sneered at by a wholly-white audience as she enrolls to start her schooling at Harding High School (Original picture by Don Sturkey, September 4, 1957)


THE BIKINI ATOLL: It would be difficult to argue that Dallaway's addition of color doesn't contrast paradise to nightmare much better with this shot of an Atom Bomb being tested (Photograph by U.S. Navy, exact date unknown)


A HARVEST OF DEATH: Green, green grass, blinding sunlight - yet little signs of life in this shot from the battle of Gettysburg (Original picture taken by Timothy H O'Sullivan, 1863)


GIANT OF THE SEAS: Designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson in the early part of the nineteenth century, it was described as 'the floating palace' and to this day is held up as one of the major successes to have come out of Tyneside. (Original picture and date taken unknown)


THE GREAT DEPRESSION: Dorothea Lange felt drawn to the migrant mother in order to highlight the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. (Original picture taken by Dorothea Lange, 1936)

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