30 Realistically Colorized Historical Photos Make the Past Seem Incredibly Alive

A new artistic trend has broken out around the world which changes our perception of history dramatically. Colorizing historic photographs from the late 1800′s and early 1900′s changes their appearance from something historic and different, into a scene from today. The colorful image of Albert Einstein sitting beside the water gives us an entire new perspective on the genius. He goes from a brilliant historic relic, into a living brilliance of our era. The colorized photograph of Audrey Hepburn transforms our thoughts of beauty. Her photo goes from an intriguing historic photo to one of a sexy starlet of today. Historic events move forward decades, or even a full century, by the addition of color carefully planned and applied by artists like Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller, and Sanna Dullaway.

London, 1945

Hindenburg Disaster, 1937


 
Japanese Archers, circa 1860


 
View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864



 
Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939

 
 
Baltimore Slums, 1938



 
Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939


 
British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939


 
Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880


 
Old Gold Country store, 1939


 
Washington D. C., 1921


 
Charles Darwin, 1874


 
Abraham Lincoln, 1865


 
Theodore Roosevelt


 
Louisville, Kentucky, 1937


 
Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, 1963


 
Anne Frank, 1942


 
Kissing the War Goodbye, 1945



 
Nicola Tesla


 
Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953


 
Elizabeth Taylor, 1956


 
Charlie Chaplin, 1916


 
Mark Twain, circa 1900


 
Walt Whitman, 1887
 
 
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933


 
Audrey Hepburn


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