Recolored Photos from the Past

Incredible series of colorized photographs from Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway. Sanna colorized some of the world’s most famous black and white photographs of subjects ranging from Abraham Lincoln, Che Guevara, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, Charlie Chaplin and many more. Click here to see the originals.

Mark Twain

Liverpool, 1909

Winston Churchill

1936 photo of a poverty-stricken migrant mother by Dorothea Lange

Theodore Roosevelt

Anne Frank

Abraham Lincoln

Charles Darwin

V-J Day in Times Square

Albert Einstein

Charlie Chaplin

Abandoned boy after the London bombings

Alfred Hitchcock

This burning monk set himself on fire to alarm the world of repression in Vietnam

Che Guevara

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter August Strindberg

Dorothy Counts was one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, NC. After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents forced her to withdraw from the school.

Operation Baker nuclear explosion

Bread line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky
1937

Artist’s Grandmother