Incredible 160-year-old Civil War era photos Restored, Enhanced, and Colorized

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Channel: A.B. Cannon

Views: 612,702

Keywords: history, colorization, colorized history, civil war, library of congress, museum, documentary, restoration, photo restoration, color, slavery, civil rights

Id: NIQuF9x8LAI

Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Haxdawg]

My aim with this project is to bring color, clarity, and other modern digital enhancements to these old tintype photos for the sake of historical preservation and awareness. However, my ultimate goal with this project is to evoke an increased measure of understanding, empathy, and appreciation towards those who endured one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous eras in American history. I hope that additional clarity and color can help viewers to experience a familiar, relatable immediacy and greater connection to our ancestors who lived, worked, laughed, cried, and experienced the same type of human emotions we do.

For many, the only record of what these very real people looked like is documented in these tintype photos. The entirety of their memory may be held in these images which are limited in quality, condition, and clarity because of the limitations of Tintype photography which was still in its infancy. I hope that my work helps us to recognize that these people in each photo faced the same reality we do, one that is in vivid detail and in color.

If you'd like to see more of my work and keep up with this project, you can check out my website or follow my Instagram!

Please consider helping me to continue this work by supporting me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/abcannon

[u/veggytheropoda]

A minor suggestion from someone that did some colorization a while ago: you might want to add more layers of hues to faces and other seemingly homogenous color patches. The skin, for example, seems slightly pinker where the reflection is more intense and yellower and browner where it gets less light. These details enhances the quality greatly.

edit: never mind, I saw some of your other posts and you know this trick well. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/hhyi6f/american_civil_war_veterans_drop_flowers_from_the/

[u/ijustwanttotalkboobs]

This may sound pretty dumb but people who restore old black and white photo's know what the colour is supposed to be?

[u/Airlocktrouble]

I don't know why, but they look really "fake" colorized. I can't explain it. Very cool tho.

[u/RoofedSnail]

Seriously amazing, good luck and I hope you continue

[u/weedsport69]

It's so odd how these people 'come to life' when we see them in colour, it's a beautiful project, you did really well!

[u/seewie]

To fake and plastic for my taste. Often less is more.

[u/DonutNick]

Dude in the thumbnail looks like he is about to tell people to "Sit down and be humble"

[u/Bill_TheCrab_Jones]

These look great, dude! Good work!