HISTORICAL IMAGES, BROUGHT TO LIFE [1843-1947]

The first photographic technology lacked a crucial ingredient: color. Already in the invention of the medium, skilled artisans applied color to photographs by hand, trying to convey the vitality and immediacy of life with vivid details (with mostly rough results).

The ancient practice of coloring has been taken up with modern digital precision in a new book, The Paper Time Machine.

With images edited by the creator of Retronaut Wolfgang Wild and colored according to a meticulous investigation of the period of Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome, the book aims to bring down the division between historical images and current spectators.