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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Mark Twain Was a Feminist
Day 207 of Colourisation Project – November 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The … Continue reading
Giacomo Puccini – Life Imitating Art
Day 206 of Colourisation Project – November 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. If there is any doubt as to whether life imitates art, you need delve no further … Continue reading
Virginia Oldoini – Raging Narcissist
Day 205 of Colourisation Project – November 28 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Long before selfies became ubiquitous and annoying, one woman, the Countess of Castiglione, is proof that … Continue reading
Ada Lovelace – Enchantress of Numbers
Day 204 of Colourisation Project – November 27 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born Ada Gordon in 1815, the only child of the brief and tempestuous marriage of the Romantic … Continue reading
Mary Edwards Walker – Rebel With a Cause
Day 203 of Colourisation Project – November 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Mary Edwards Walker refused to play by the rules. She often wore men’s clothes including a … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Hit (1871), Loredana Crupi, Mary Edwards Walker, Medal of Honor, Opus Loredana, President Andrew Jackson, President Jimmy Carter, Unmasked or the Science of Immorality (1878)
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Toulouse-Lautrec’s Short-lived Career
Day 201 of Colourisation Project – November 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. One of the greatest and influential painters of the Post-Impressionist period was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who … Continue reading
Boris Karloff – A Gentle Monster
Day 200 of Colourisation Project – November 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. You will have to look hard to recognise today’s subject. His name is synonymous with horror … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA
Tagged Boris Karloff, horror films, Loredana Crupi, Sir John Thomas Pratt, William Henry Pratt
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Miguel Covarrubias – Mexico’s 20th-Century Renaissance Man
Day 199 of Colourisation Project – November 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, 22 November 1904 in Mexico City, Miguel Covarrubias, was painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist … Continue reading
Unfortunate Mariano Fortuny
Day 198 of Colourisation Project – November 21 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Marià Fortuny i Marsal also known as Mariano Fortuny, was one of the most eminent figures … Continue reading