3000 Hours Later, Here Are 30+ Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People That I Colorized

Hi, my name is Mario Unger, I'm a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year my main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. In this post I show some of my favorites.

The reason for doing all of this work was to reduce the felt distance in time a little bit. I love B&W photography, but for some images I think, color is needed and most of B&W photography was done for one reason, there just was no color film!

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#1 Adrienne Ames ("From Hell To Heaven", 1933)

#2 Texas Couple, Early 20th Century, Heavy Restoration

#3 Albert Einstein

#4 Mark Twain, 1914

#5 Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca", 1942

6 Laurel Hardy, UK Tour, 1953

#7 Grace Kelly

#8 Maud Wagner CA 1905

#9 Mulberry Street, New York, 1900

#10 Walter Catty Allen CA 1900

#11 East Side Jewish Market, 1895

#12 Picasso

#13 Edmund Hillary, 1953

#14 Puppet Designer, 1936

#15 Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

#16 Walt Disney, 1931

#17 Che Guevara

#18 Greta Garbo

#19 Jerome, L.E., 1900

#20 Oscar Wilde

#21 The Andrews Sisters

#22 Grace Kelly

#23 Czar Nikolaus II

#24 Evelyn Nesbit CA 1900

#25 Colley, Mrs. F. & Bell, Mrs. C.M. 1901

#26 Crown Prince Rudolf Of Austria, 1889 (Year Of His Suicide)

#27 Silvia Sidney And Henry Fonda In "You Only Live Once" (1937)

#28 Heffner, Mrs. T.M. 1900

#29 Rachmaninoff CA 1915

#30 Mark Twain, 1907

#31 Victor Hugo, 1876

#32 Kaiser Wilhelm II From Germany

#33 Grace Kelly

#34 Grace Kelly With Robert Cummings, Famous Bruegel Painting On The Wall

#35 "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944

#36 Old Man, 1890

#37 Marilyn Monroe, 1951

#38 Babe Ruth CA 1920

#39 Albert Einstein

#40 In Honor Of A Great Person. Sophia Magdalena Scholl (1921-1943). Executed 75 Years Ago By The Greatest Criminals Humanity Has Ever Seen

#41 Old Tom Morris, 1867

#42 Louis Pasteur By Felix Nadar CA 1890

#43 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922

#44 Henry Ford, 1863-1947

#45 Last Photo Of Oliver Hardy, 1957

#46 Mickey Rooney, 1930s

#47 Julie Adams In "Creature From The Black Lagoon", 1954

#48 Greta Garbo

#49 Laurel & Hardy, 1933

50 Margaret O'Brien (1937-) In "Lost Angel" (1943)

#51 Toulouse Lautrec

#52 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 1893, Elephant Hunting, India

#53 Charles Baudelaire, 1853

#54 Grace Kelly

#55 Buck Craske By Olive Edis CA 1910

#56 Hellen Keller

#57 Woman In The White House, 1944

#58 Mary Badham And Gregory Peck In 'To Kill A Mockingbird' (1962)

#59 Enrico Caruso CA 1910

#60 Thomas Wodrow Wilson, 1913 -1921

#61 Franz Liszt, 1886

#62 "Once Upon A Time", 1944

#63 Louis And Grace

#64 Mercer Washington, Baseball Player, 1896

#65 Leo Tolstoy, 1897

#66 Jascha Heifetz, 1920

#67 Marlon Brando As Marc Antony, 1953

#68 Rasputin CA 1910

#69 Errol Flyn

#70 Buffalo Bill, 1906

#71 Lewis (Powell) Payne Minutes Before He Was Executed, 1865. He Was A Conspirator In The Lincoln Assassination

#72 Al Grey

#73 Powerhouse, 1920

#74 Photographer C. M. Bell CA 1890

#75 Walt Whitman CA 1860

#76 Punlun, 1870

#77 Gioacchino Rossini, 1856

#78 US Civil War Admiral David Dixon Porter CA 1860

#79 Ellen Terry At Age Sixteen, By Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864

#80 John L. Burns, The Old Hero Of Gettysburg, 1863

#81 June Allyson CA 1940

#82 General Oglesby CA 1862

#83 Gustav Mahler

#84 Egon Schiele, 1914

#85 Belcher Johnson By Olive Edis CA 1910

#86 Chaplin And Sousa Not Exactly Fitting The Post, But Sousa Is Wearing A Uniform At Least

#87 Child CA 1870

#88 U.S.C.P. 60 Policeman CA 1890

#89 Fridtjof Nansen

#90 Walt Whitman, 1858

#91 Portrait Of The Photographer Dr. George Wharton James (1858-1923) CA 1908

#92 James Buchanan, 1857-1861

#93 Boris Karloff As Imhotep In "The Mummy", 1932

#94 Kaiser Franz Joseph, 1895. The Second To Last Austrian Emporer In His Military Uniform

#95 Billy The Kid

#96 "Lotion" Tar Bishop

#97 Ed Walsh, 1911

#98 German Naval Officer, WWI, CA 1915

#99 Stewart Granger CA 1933

#100 C. M. Bell Jung CA 1865

#101 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841

#102 Roger Fenton As "Zuave", Crimean War, 1856