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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums15 Remarkable Colorized Photos From History. #7 Is Just Horrifying Beyond Words.
http://www.lifebuzz.com/colorized-photos/(4 links deleted due to hotlinking policy)
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15 Remarkable Colorized Photos From History. #7 Is Just Horrifying Beyond Words. (Original Post)
steve2470
Mar 2015
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zappaman
(20,606 posts)1. Wtf is Einstein wearing on his feet?
Never seen that one before....
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. Surely you've worn sandals before.
No those aren't pumps, get your mind out of the gutter.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)5. Not bread bags...
n/t
petronius
(26,608 posts)6. Here's some (apparent) background on that one - it's a cute story:
zappaman
(20,606 posts)10. Thank you for that!!! n/t
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)3. Amazing!
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. This one
Is my new desktop background! Thanks for the link those pictures are amazing!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)8. my pleasure! nt
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)7. Whitman and Einstein
just radiate deep but gentle wisdom and the best of humanity.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)9. I'm probably wrong, but #8 looks more like WWI than WWII to me.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)11. It's the trench helmet. The British still used it in WWII
American soldiers did not. That's probably what's throwing you.
http://www.epicmilitaria.com/section.php/177/1/wwii-british-uniforms
http://www.history-of-american-wars.com/world-war-1-uniforms.html
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)14. Yep. That was mostly it. Thanks for the info.
hlthe2b
(102,494 posts)13. It does to me too... which made it all the more poignant, given the particular carnage in trenches
during that war "to end all wars"... (not that I'm discounting the horror of WWII, by any means)
progressoid
(50,011 posts)12. No thanks. I prefer them in B&W.
Similarly, Ted Turner should have kept his colorizing paws off black and white films.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)15. I'm with you.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)16. Yep, the originals are better
B&W has its own character that is destroyed by colorization.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)17. Pic 1 could be any Beatle or Stone, or Who...
They were that age then...
Pic 2? "Who wears short shorts? HE wears short shorts..."