Category Archives: Black & White

Look Down

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Photographers are often reminded to diversify their camera angles by looking upwards to capture imposing perspectives of buildings or majestic canopies of trees. Whilst this is essentially a terrific suggestion especially in Melbourne, where we have many architecturally beautiful and … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Black & White, Photography | Tagged iron gates, Lady Gaga, Loredana Crupi, Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne, Northcote, Opus Loredana, picket fences, shade, shadows, streets | 9 Comments

Emil Otto Hoppé – Long Lost Master Photographer

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 342 of Colourisation Project – April 14 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Emil Otto Hoppé is perhaps not a name that rings bells. But once upon a time … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography | Tagged A Camera on Unknown London, A.A. Milne, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Stieglitz, Anna Pavlova, Benito Mussolini, Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Emil Otto Hoppé, Ezra Pound, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry James, In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace, King George, Loredana Crupi, Margot Fonteyn, One Hundred Thousand Exposures, Opus Loredana, Picturesque Great Britain’, Queen Mary, Richard Strauss, Robert Frost, Romantic Amerika’, Romantik der Kleinstadt, Rudyard Kipling, Rural London, Studies from the Russian Ballet, T. S. Eliot, Taken from Life, Tamara Karsavina, The Book of Fair Women, Vaslav Nijinsky, Walker Evans | 3 Comments

Alfred Cheney Johnston – Star Maker

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 336 of Colourisation Project – April 8 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, April 8, 1885, Alfred Cheney Johnston, known as “Cheney” to his friends and … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography, USA | Tagged Alfred Cheney Johnston, Charles Gibson, Cheney, Clara Bow, Claudette Colbert, Edward Thayer Monroe, Ethel Barrymore, Fanny Brice, Gibson Girl, Gloria Swanson, Helen Hayes, John Barrymore, Loredana Crupi, Louise Brooks, Marie Prevost, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, nude photography, Opus Loredana, Pearl White, Tallulah Bankhead, the Gish Sisters, Tyrone Power, Ziegfeld Follies | Leave a comment

Max Dupain ~ A Quintessentially Australian Photographer

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 332 of Colourisation Project – April 4 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. His mantra was simple: “Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Australia, Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography | Tagged architecture, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Loredana Crupi, Max Dupain, Maxwell Spencer Dupain, Opus Loredana | Leave a comment

Ansel Adams ~ Master Manipulator

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 289 of Colourisation Project – February 20 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, February 20, 1902, Ansel Easton Adams was one of the most celebrated and … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Environmentalism, Photography, USA | Tagged Ansel Adams, Ansel Easton Adams, Loredana Crupi, Yosemite National Park | Leave a comment

Unforgettable Nat King Cole

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 284 of Colourisation Project – February 15 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Who doesn’t have a bit of Nat King Cole in their music collection, iPod or otherwise? … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Music, Photography, USA | Tagged Answer Me, Count Basie, For Sentimental Reasons, King Cole Trio, L-O-V-E, Loredana Crupi, Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole, Nature Boy, Peggy Lee, Ramblin' Rose, Route 66, Sammy Davis Jr., Straighten Up and Fly Right, The Christmas Song, The Nat King Cole Show, Tony Bennett, Unforgettable, Walkin' My Baby back Home | Leave a comment

Henri Mallard – A Bridge to the Past

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 259 of Colourisation Project – January 21 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On 19 March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened to the public. It was a massive … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Film, History, Photography | Tagged Harbour Bridge, Henri Mallard, Loredana Crupi, Mallard, Max Dupain, Monte Luke, Pictorialists, Sydney Harbour Bridge | 1 Comment

Edward Weston – Master of Photography

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 239 of Colourisation Project – January 1 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. It was on this day, January 1, 1958, that Edward Henry Weston, arguably one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography, USA | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Alfred Weston, Ansel Adams, Edward Henry Weston, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Loredana Crupi, Margarethe Mather, Tina Modotti | 3 Comments

Elizabeth Feodorovna – The Princess Saint

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 178 of Colourisation Project – November 1 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. In the early hours of the morning of July 18, 1918, the day after the execution … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, russia, Women | Tagged Bolsheviks, Countess Alexandra Olsoufieff, Elizabeta Feodorovna, Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Loredana Crupi, Queen Victoria, Romanov Dynasty, Russia, Russian Revolution, Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov, St. Elizabeth Romanova, Tsar Nicholas II, Vassili Ryabov | 4 Comments

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

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