WHAT IT’S ABOUT “Colorizing” black-and-white movies remains controversial, some 30 years after initial attempts to make old films peacock-palatable in a color TV world. The original computer process ...

French artist Sébastien de Oliveira is best known for his meticulous colorization of historical black and white photographs, ...

If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

When a lot of people take history courses, it feels as if the past is so far away, especially when you look at black-and-white photos. But now a group on Reddit called Colorized History is making ...

History looks boring in black and white until someone decides to give it life with color. Suddenly the past jumps off the page with people, streets, and moments that feel shockingly real. You see ...

Pictures are worth 1,000 words and all, but when they’re in black and white, it’s hard to imagine what certain moments in time were really like. The same goes for historical figures. Luckily, ...

We often think of history in black and white, quite literally. And that’s because most very old photographs are indeed monochrome, taken before a time when images could easily and affordably be ...

Composite Films conducted 5,800 hours of research and poured over 27 miles of film to create our series America in Color. Where did they even begin? Their art director fills us in on the maddeningly ...

I’m a fan of classic Hollywood movies, and so over break I spent part of my time screening a marathon of 1930s screwball comedies. In the middle of watching dramatic, grayscale pictures like “It ...