Topic: History

Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / Original Image by Kermit Roosevelt / Library of Congress
Photo Essay

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.

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Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative
Profile

The Past Comes Alive: History in High-Definition

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.

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Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / Original image by Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress
The Backstory

A Vibrant Past: Colorizing the Archives of History

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.

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Martin Parr—Magnum
Out There

Portrait of a City: A Look at London

A new photo book by Taschen captures images of London from the Victorian era to the swinging ’60s and the present day.

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Jim Naughten for TIME
Photo Essay

The Way We Were: 1948 London Olympians Look Back

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.

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Jeff Widener—AP
The Backstory

Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

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.

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©TIME, Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert—LOOK Magazine/Courtesy Library of Congress
The Backstory

Behind the Cover: The Unseen Photos of Lenore and Mitt Romney

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.

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Berenice Abbott / Courtesy of Editions Hazan and Yale University Press
Out There

New York, Cocteau and a Parabolic Mirror: ‘Berenice Abbott: Photographs’

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.

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Eugene de Salignac—NYC Municipal Archives
Out There

Brooklyn Bridge: Historic Photo of a New York Landmark

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.

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Matthew Brandt—Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Out There

‘Lakes, Trees and Honeybees’: Matthew Brandt at Yossi Milo Gallery

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.

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