Spread the love

French artist Sébastien de Oliveira is best known for his meticulous colorization of historical black and white photographs, a process that blends archival research with a distinctly artistic sensibility.

Drawing on his background as a painter and photographer, de Oliveira approaches each image with careful attention to period-accurate details, studying clothing, architecture, materials, and environmental cues to ensure that every color choice feels grounded in its historical context. His goal is not strict realism, but emotional authenticity, using color as a way to reconnect modern viewers with moments that might otherwise feel distant or abstract.

More info: Instagram

#1

Computer lesson in 1972.

#2

A British sailor on board the HMS ALCANTARA uses a portable sewing machine to repair a signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone.
Photographed by Cecil Beaton in March 1942.

#3

Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis are trying a Messerschmitt KR 200 in Paris, photographed in 1955.

#4

Policeman Leclerc, Porte Saint Denis, Paris, 1925.

#5

Marlene Dietrich and her chauffeur, Briggs, on a lunch break from filming Shanghai Express in 1931.

#6

Actress Diana Dors, in 1953.

#7

A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Md.
Photographed in 1905.

#8

Vivien Leigh photographed by Laszlo Willinger in 1940.

#9

Millworker’s house six miles north of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina.
Photographed in July 1939 by Dorothea Lange.

#10

After The Shower, The Newspaper Seller Sweeps Up Around Her Kiosk.
Photographed in Paris on June 9Th 1955.

#11

Two clowns, Dario and Bario, photographed in 1945 by Robert Doisneau.

#12

The Brox Sisters, singers.
Lorayne, Bobbe, and Patricia Brox, 1924.

#13

Sarasota, Florida, trailer park. Students are coming from school in the afternoon.
Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in January 1941.

#14

Farmer’s truck at state rice mill, Abbeville, Louisiana.
Photographed by Russell Lee in September 1938.

#15

Ile Saint-Louis, Paris, 1958, by Philippe Bataillon.

#16

Frank Horvat, Paris, pour Jardin des Modes, à ‘Le Chien Qui Fume’, 1957.

#17

Illuminated tires were developed by GoodYear in 1961.

#18

Filling station, Reedsville, Preston County, West Virginia. Photographed by Walker Evans in June 1935.

#19

Circulation near Porte Saint Martin, Paris, in 1951.
I live nearly 200m from there.

#20

Miami Beach, Florida, 1962.
Photographed by Elliott Erwitt.

#21

Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill,
30 December 1941, by Yousuf Karsh.

#22

#23

Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Photographed in the summer of 1977.

#24

Medford, Massachusetts, 1977.

#25

Gas station on Route 1 near Saugus, Massachusetts.
Photographed in September 1977.

#26

Shopping and visiting on the main street of Pittsboro, North Carolina, Saturday afternoon, photographed by Dorothea Lange in July 1939.

#27

The smallest house in Paris.
With a facade less than 1,5 meters wide, the house is situated at 39 rue du Château d’eau in the 10th arrondissement. 200 meters from my home!
Photographed in 1926.

#28

Young workers at the Penomah Mills Inc, Taftville, Connecticut.
Photographed by Jack Delano in November 1940.

#29

Gordonton, North Carolina. Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon.Photographed by Dorothea Lange. July 1939.

#30

James Dean by Maurice Terrell, 1954.

#31

American troops participating in the Victory parade on the Champs Elysées in Paris for Bastille day 14th July 1919.

#32

Melvin Cash, a truck driver, is putting water in his radiator along U.S. Highway 29 in North Carolina en route to Charlotte.
Photographed by John Vachon in March 1943.

#33

Japanese Painter Foujita and his muse Youki at Deauville, France. Photographed in 1925.

#34

Train Station Saint Lazare, Paris 1920.
Published in my book « Paris jamais vu! »

#35

Women workers during lunch hour, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Photographed by Arthur Siegel in May 1943.

#36

Street view in San Augustine, Texas, 1943. Photographed by John Vachon.

#37

November 1940. « Restaurant and beer hall in Summit City, California, boom town near Shasta Dam. » Photographed by Russell Lee.

#38

Showroom of the Pierson Company owned by Al Pierson.
November 1942, Lititz, Pennsylvania.
Photographed by Marjory Collins.

#39

Merry Christmas!
Mrs Roosvelt on a Christmas shopping tour.
Washington, D.C. December 1934.
Harris & Ewing Collection.

#40

Lititz, Pennsylvania, small town in wartime. Photographed by Marjory Collins in November 1942.

#41

Bob Daugherty, a driver for the Associated Transport Company, was on U.S. Highway Route 29 near Culpeper, Virginia. Photographed by John Vachon in March 1943.

#42

Kimo Theatre on Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Photographed by John Collier in February 1943.

#43

Conductor G.Reynolds, checking his waybills in a caboose of the Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas.
Photographed by Jack Delano in March 1943.

#44

August 1939. Medford, Oregon. Farm boy on the main drugstore corner in town, by Dorothea Lange.
From my book. « Back to America »

#45

Gas Station, Chicago, Illinois.
Photographed by John Vachon in July 1941.

#46

Newsboys in Jackson, Ohio. Photographed by Theodor Jung on April 12th, 1936.

#47

In the court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Florida. Photographed in 1905.

#48

General store in Pony, Montana, photographed by Arthur Rothstein in June 1939.

#49

Man sleeping on the subway, 1939.

#50

Sidewalk scene in Selma, Alabama.
Photographed in December 1935 by Walker Evans.

#51

Service station run by a former resident of Oklahoma in Questa, New Mexico.
Photographed by Russell Lee in September 1939.

#52

Daughter of John Yeuser of Mauch Chunk, a coal mining town in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.
Photographed by Jack Delano in August 1940.

#53

Herald Square, 34th Street, and Broadway, New York.Photographed by Berenice Abbott in July 1936.

This colorisation is special for me, I can say it is the most difficult I ever had to do, 500 people to dress! yes I counted them because my daughter asked me how many they were! I did it three years ago for my first book, Back To America.

#54

Charles Farrar on a Harley Davidson, Washington D.C. Photographed by Robert H.McNeill in 1949.

#55

Cobb&Company stage, West Coast Road to Christchurch, New Zealand, 1900.

#56

Street scene in the downtown business section.
Woodward Avenue at Farnsworth Street as seen from the Maccabees Building.
Detroit, Michigan, photographed by Arthur Siegel in July 1942.

#57

Filling station on a highway out of town, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Photographed by John Vachon in March 1943.

#58

The goat carriages, Coney Island. New York, 1904.

from Bored Panda https://ift.tt/IE58diD
via IFTTT source site : boredpanda

Bored Panda, IFTTT

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30

#31

#32

#33

#34

#35

#36

#37

#38

#39

#40

#41

#42

#43

#44

#45

#46

#47

#48

#49

#50

#51

#52

#53

#54

#55

#56

#57

#58

Related Posts

“I Honestly Don’t Feel Sorry”: Woman Makes MIL Cry After She Shamed Her In Front Of Everyone

“How Did It Actually End?”: Identify 30 Films With Only The Closing Scene As Your Hint

30 Funny “Off The Mark” One-Panel Comics Depicting Horror Movies In A Parallel Universe By Mark Parisi (New Pics)

Olympic Pole Vaulter And Adult Content Star Alysha Newman Faces Suspension For Rules Violation

This Instagram Page Shares Stunning Ceramic Designs, And Here Are 110 Of The Most Unique Ones

Drama Over Last Name Unfolds As Guy Spends More Time With Bio Dad: “I’m No Longer Your Father”