Photo Colorization and Restoration
The summer after my first year of college, I connected with a small international crowd of restorers at the r/ColorizedHistory subreddit, and as our popularity grew, my career as a freelancer started to exist. This project includes my first big commission—from NPR for this article—lots of color studies on spec, and private commissions.
PHOTO MANIPULATION
Grace Kelly in a Paramount portrait, circa 1953
An American soldier plus roo at an advanced allied base in Australia, circa 1942
Why not? Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. This portrait is based on Joseph Siffred Duplessis’s oil on canvas from 1785, when Franklin was living outside Paris.
Evelyn C. Lewis, Miss Washington, DC, 1922 (how many people can you find in this photo?)
Allen Ginsberg (right) and 100% platonic friend Peter Orlovsky in Paris, 1956
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden still for Sabrina, 1954
Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau, 1856
Unidentified school portrait, circa 1950s
A model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. Toni Frissell for Harper’s Bazaar, 1947
President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905
Actor Julie Andrews, 1955
Actor Susan Peters posing in Pacific Palisades, 1942. Highly recommend a skim of her life story.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, daguerreotype photograph by Mathew Brady’s studio, circa 1844-1860
Military couple, circa 1950s—private commission
Unidentified young boy, circa 1960s—private commission
Sammy Davis, Jr., waving to the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington, 1963. Commission from NPR.
Army soldier getting deloused, circa 1940s
Two girls in a Washington, DC hospital bed, 1931
A.W. "Artie" Leonard of National Photo with a large camera, 1911
Client’s grandmother, circa 1950s—private commission
Client’s grandmother, circa 1960s—private commission
Marlon Brando promotional headshot for The Men, 1950
Ranger Griffin monitoring almost 200 square miles for wildfires at the Cabinet National Forest, Montana, 1909
Client’s grandparents, circa 1950s—private commission