Bringing Color to Presidents Past
To commemorate President’s Day, TIME commissioned Swedish photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize portraits of 12 American Presidents from the past 150 years.
To commemorate President’s Day, TIME commissioned Swedish photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize portraits of 12 American Presidents from the past 150 years.
There’s always something interesting about history—it’s often just a matter of knowing where to find it. Shorpy.com highlights the noteworthy negatives of the Library of Congress in high-definition.
For this week’s issue of TIME, Sanna Dullaway digitally colorized archival images of America’s 16th president in hopes of bringing history to life. Here’s a look back on the iconic images she’s revisited.
A new photo book by Taschen captures images of London from the Victorian era to the swinging ’60s and the present day.
Olympic medalists from the 1948 games in London remember their experiences in the post-war ‘austerity’ Olympics. Even with a tiny budget and a war-worn country, the athletes managed to have a good time.
The story behind the iconic Tiananmen Square Tank Man photo didn’t end after the click of the shutter—the film had to be smuggled past Chinese soldiers in the underwear of an American college student named Kirk.
When Douglas Gilbert photographed Lenore Romney’s U.S. Senate campaign for LOOK Magazine in August of 1970, little did he know that one of his unused images would end up on the cover of TIME 42 years later.
The work of Berenice Abbott, who photographed Depression-era New York, is featured in a new exhibition at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario and an accompanying book.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public on May 24, 1883. Photographs of the work-in-progress bridge are now available to the public through the New York City Municipal Archives.
Matthew Brandt, whose work is featured in a show at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City, makes photographs that are of his subjects in two senses of the word.