3000 Hours Later, Here Are 102 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 Albert Einstein

#2 Mulberry Street, New York, 1900

#3 Adrienne Ames (“From Hell To Heaven”, 1933)

#4 Walter Catty Allen CA 1900

#5 Maud Wagner CA 1905

#6 Grace Kelly

#7 Humphrey Bogart, “Casablanca”, 1942

#8 Laurel Hardy, UK Tour, 1953

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

#10 Evelyn Nesbit CA 1900

#11 Picasso

#12 Oscar Wilde

#13 East Side Jewish Market, 1895

#14 Jerome, L.E., 1900

#15 Walt Disney, 1931

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

#17 Mark Twain

#18 Greta Garbo

#19 Edmund Hillary, 1953

#20 Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

#21 The Andrews Sisters

#22 Grace Kelly

#23 Tsar Nikolaus Ii

#24 Mark Twain, 1907

#25 “Arsenic And Old Lace”, 1944

#26 Che Guevara

#27 Hellen Keller

#28 Old Man, 1890

#29 Puppet Designer, 1936

#30 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922

#31 Mary Badham And Gregory Peck In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ (1962)

#32 Babe Ruth CA 1920

#33 Silvia Sidney And Henry Fonda In “You Only Live Once” (1937)

#34 Victor Hugo, 1876

#35 Buck Craske By Olive Edis CA 1910

#36 Last Photo Of Oliver Hardy, 1957

#37 Louis And Grace

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

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

#40 Heffner, Mrs. T.M. 1900

#41 Buffalo Bill, 1906

#42 Grace Kelly

#43 Child CA 1870

#44 Laurel & Hardy, 1933

#45 Rachmaninoff CA 1915

#46 Fridtjof Nansen

#47 Leo Tolstoy, 1897

#48 Boris Karloff As Imhotep In “The Mummy”, 1932

#49 Marilyn Monroe, 1951

#50 Errol Flyn

#51 Toulouse Lautrec

#52 Julie Adams In “Creature From The Black Lagoon”, 1954

#53 Margaret O’Brien (1937-) In “Lost Angel” (1943)

#54 Albert Einstein

#55 Powerhouse, 1920

#56 Greta Garbo

#57 Walt Whitman CA 1860

#58 Kaiser Wilhelm II From Germany

#59 Mickey Rooney, 1930s

#60 Al Grey

#61 Punlun, 1870

#62 Gioacchino Rossini, 1856

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

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

#65 “Once Upon A Time”, 1944

#66 Old Tom Morris, 1867

#67 Woman In The White House, 1944

#68 Franz Liszt, 1886

#69 Marlon Brando As Marc Antony, 1953

#70 “Lotion” Tar Bishop

#71 Louis Pasteur By Felix Nadar CA 1890

#72 Jascha Heifetz, 1920

#73 Belcher Johnson By Olive Edis CA 1910

#74 June Allyson CA 1940

#75 Henry Ford, 1863-1947

#76 Grace Kelly

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

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

#79 Charles Baudelaire, 1853

#80 Enrico Caruso CA 1910

#81 Egon Schiele, 1914

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

#83 Billy The Kid

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

#85 Photographer C. M. Bell CA 1890

#86 Walt Whitman, 1858

#87 Stewart Granger CA 1933

#88 C. M. Bell Jung CA 1865

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

#90 General Oglesby CA 1862

#91 Mercer Washington, Baseball Player, 1896

#92 US Civil War Admiral David Dixon Porter CA 1860

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

#94 Thomas Wodrow Wilson, 1913 -1921

#95 Ed Walsh, 1911

#96 German Naval Officer, WWI, CA 1915

#97 Roger Fenton As “Zuave”, Crimean War, 1856

#98 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841

#99 James Buchanan, 1857-1861

#100 Rasputin CA 1910

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

#102 Gustav Mahler