Monthly Archives: October 2014

Natalie Clifford Barney – Left Bank Lover

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 177 of Colourisation Project – October 31 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Two female lovers watch Sarah Bernhardt play Hamlet, when one poses the question, “What is there for … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, French Literature, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers | Tagged Adrienne Monnier, Alice B. Toklas, Anatole France, Andre Gide, Caresse and Harry Crosby, Colette, Dolly Wilde, Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre, Edna St Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald, Françoise Sagan, George Antheil, Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau, Liane de Pougy, Loredana Crupi, Mata Hari, Nancy Cunard, Natalie Barney, Natalie Clifford Barney, Oscar Wilde, Paris, Paul Poiret, Peggy Guggenheim, Radclyffe Hall, Rainer Maria Rilke, Remy de Gourmont, Romaine Brooks, Sinclair Lewis, Sylvia Beach, The Well of Loneliness, Thornton Wilder, Truman Capote, TS Eliot, Virgil Thompson, Wanda Landowska | Leave a comment

Ezra Pound – Suburban Fascist Poet

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 176 of Colourisation Project – October 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho, Ezra Pound, American poet and critic, is generally … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Poetry, USA | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Divine Comedy, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, H. D., Hitler, Homer's Odyssey, James Joyce, Loredana Crupi, Marianne Moore, Mussolini, Pisan Cantos, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, W.B.Yeats, William Carlos Williams | 2 Comments

Frances Folsom Cleveland – President’s Child Bride

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 175 of Colourisation Project – October 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Frances Folsom Cleveland‘s claim to fame is that she was and still remains the youngest First Lady … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Uncategorized, USA | Tagged An Honest President, Emma Folsom, Frances Clara Folsom, Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland, Oscar Folsom, President Grover Cleveland, Thomas J. Preston | Leave a comment

Elsa Lanchester- Nonconventional Bride

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 174 of Colourisation Project – October 28 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. For those who can still think in black and white when it comes to films, you will … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA | Tagged Bride of Frankenstein, Charles Laughton, Die Laughing, Easy Come Easy Go, Elsa Lanchester, Elsa Lanchester Herself, Isadora Duncan, Lord Byron, Loredana Crupi, Mary Shelley, Mary Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Murder by Death, Naughty Marietta, Percy Shelley, The Bride of Frankenstein, Witness for the Prosecution | Leave a comment

“I Observe With Horror an Anterior Future”

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 173 of Colourisation Project – October 27 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. It is a sad fact that one of the few photos of Lewis Powell, son of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Uncategorized, USA | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, American Civil War, Camera Lucida, Lewis Payne, Lewis Powell, Lewis Thornton Powell, Loredana Crupi, Roland Barthes | 1 Comment

Guillermo Kahlo – In His Own Right

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 172 of Colourisation Project – October 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Little known outside Mexico, German born photographer, Carl Wilhelm (Guillermo) Kahlo’s photos remain a legacy to Mexican … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Art, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged Carl Wilhelm Kahlo, Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kahlo, Loredana Crupi, Mexico, Portrait of Don Guillermo Kahlo | Leave a comment

Vincent Price – Master of Menace

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 171 of Colourisation Project – October 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. As a child, my first ever horror movie was the House of Wax made in 1953. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA | Tagged Loredana Crupi, Vincent Price | 1 Comment

Sybil Thorndike – Grand Dame of British Theatre

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 170 of Colourisation Project – October 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. The black Belgian marble tombstone in Westminster Abbey bears the following inscription etched in white. “Saint Joan … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Women | Tagged Bleak House, Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Dawn, Edith Cavell, George Bernard Shaw, J.B. Priestly, Laurence Olivier, Loredana Crupi, Macbeth, Major Barbara (1941), Marilyn Monroe, Melba (1952), Nicholas Nickleby (1948), Saint Joan, Sybil Thorndike, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), The Scarlet Letter., The Viaduct (1966), There Was An Old Woman (1969) | Leave a comment

Gummo – The Forgotten Marx Brother

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 169 of Colourisation Project – October 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. There’s Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico and then there’s Gummo. Not so familiar with the fans, he was one-fifth … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Uncategorized, USA | Tagged Chico, Groucho, Groucho Marx, Gummo, Gummo Marx, Harpo, Harpo Marx, Loredana Crupi, Marx Brothers, Milton Marx, Zeppo | Leave a comment

Sarah Bernhardt – World’s First Superstar

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 168 of Colourisation Project – October 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Often referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World, she had what Victor Hugo called “startling, … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, France, Photography, Women, Women in Film & TV | Tagged Czar Alexander III, Félix Nadar, Loredana Crupi, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Père Lachaise, Sarah Bernhardt, Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo | 4 Comments

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