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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Maria Montessori – Mother of All Education & Peace
Day 116 of Colourisation Project – August 31 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, August 31 in 1870, Maria Montessori, was a math prodigy, a physicist and an … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Education, Photography, Women, Women writers
Tagged 1896 International Congress for Women’s Rights in Berlin, 9th International Montessori Congress, Alexander Graham Bell, Education and Peace 1947, Giuseppe Montesano, Loredana Crupi, Maria Montessori, Montessori Method, The Absorbent Mind, University of Rome School of Medicine
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Ingrid Bergman – Sweden’s Illustrious Gift to Hollywood.
Day 114 of Colourisation Project – August 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, 29 August 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden, internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Photography, Women, Women in Film & TV
Tagged A Month in the Country, A Woman Called Golda, Alfred Hitchcock, Anastasia, Autumn Sonata, Casablanca (1942), Charles Boyer, David O. Selznick, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Elena et les Hommes, Europa '51, Friedel Pia, Gaslight, Giovanna d'Arco al Rogo (1954), Golda Meir, Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman: My Story, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), Isabella Rossellini, Jean Renoir, Joan of Lorraine, Juninatten (1940), La Paura (Fear 1954), Lars Schmidt, Loredana Crupi, More Stately Mansions, Murder on the Orient Express, Notorious (1946), Only One Night (1939), Petter Lindstrom, Roberto Rossellini, Siamo Donne (1953), Spellbound (1945), Stockholm, Stromboli (1950), Sweden, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Turn of the Screw, the Women 1953), Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy 1954)
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Man Ray – The Dada of Them All
Day 112 of Colourisation Project – August 27 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia USA on this day, August 27 in 1890 was a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Colorization, Colourisation, Film, France, Photography
Tagged Adon Lacroix, Anémic Cinéma, Dadaism, Emak Bakia, Emmanuel Radnitzky, Juliet Browner, Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), L'Etoile de Mer, Le Retour à la Raison, Lee Miller, Les Mystères du Château de Dé, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Montparnasse, Salvador Dalí, Surrealism
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William James – Father of American Psychology
Day 111 of Colourisation Project – August 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s subject for colourisation is American philosopher and psychologist, William James, who died on this day, August … Continue reading
Liberation of Paris – 70th Anniversary
Day 110 of Colourisation Project – August 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. This day August 25, marks the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris. After four years of … Continue reading
Ida Cook – Sister of Mercy
Day 109 of Colourisation Project – August 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Ida Cook born 24 August 1904 in Sunderland, England was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Literature, Opera, Women, Women writers
Tagged British Hero of the Holocaust, Clemens Krauss, Ida Cook, Loredana Crupi, Mary Burchell, Mary Louise Cook, Mills & Boon, My Life - Tito Gobbi, Safe Passage, The Warrender Saga, Viorica Ursuleac, We Followed Our Stars
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Gene Kelly – The Working Man’s Hoofer
Day 108 of Colourisation Project – August 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, August 23, 1912 Eugene Curran ‘Gene’ Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Dance, Film, Photography, USA
Tagged An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh, Brigadoon, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Invitation to the Dance., Loredana Crupi, On the Town, Singin' in the Rain, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, The Pirate, The Three Musketeers
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Leni Riefenstahl – The Casualty of Triumph
Day 107 of Colourisation Project – August 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day August 22, 1902 in Berlin Helene Bertha Amalie ‘Leni’ Riefenstahl was a German film … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women Photographers
Tagged Arnold Fanck, Der Tagesspiegel, Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, Leni Riefenstahl, Loredana Crupi, Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, Opus Loredana, Riefenstahl, The Last of the Nuba, Triumph of the Will, Underwater Impressions
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