When black-and-white photographs are colorized, the subject in the image looks more “real.” This makes sense: Most of us experience our surroundings in color, and when rendered in monochrome, the ...

Early photographic technology lacked a crucial ingredient — color. As early as the invention of the medium, skilled artisans applied color to photographs by hand, attempting to convey the vibrancy and ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Have you ever thought about taking a real peek into our history? Time machines don’t exist (yet), so books, songs and stories can take your imagination there. Old paintings, relics, ...

1902: Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill. Should you colorize some of the most iconic black-and-white images in photographic history? Wolfgang Wild and Jordan J. Lloyd ...

Alfred T. Palmer, “Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a 'Vengeance' dive bomber, Tennessee” (1943) converted to grayscale by the author. For most of the history of ...

Lewis Hine was one of the first photographers to use photography as a tool to document social conditions, particularly those which he believed "had to be corrected." Chief among these was the practice ...

At the turn of the 20th century, cameras were already freezing history in black and white. But color changes everything: By 1907, color photography was starting to gain a little commercial attention, ...