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Category Archives: Britain
“Beauty is in The Eye of The Gazer.” ― Charlotte Brontë
Gertrude Stein once said, “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.” Certainly that is the case with today’s subject, Charlotte Brontë. There’s a good reason for this. We know from personal letters that … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opus Loredana, United Kingdom, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Anne Brontë, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, Edward VII, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, George Richmond, Gertrude Stein, Jane Eyre, John Ruskin, Opus Loredana, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, William Blake
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Alice Liddell’s Age of Innocence
Day 362 of Colourisation Project – May 4 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. As popular today as it ever was, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography
Tagged Alfred, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Lord Tennyson, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Through the Looking Glass
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Beatrice Webb ~ Social Reformer
Day 358 of Colourisation Project – April 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. A socialist utopian, she coined the term “collective bargaining.” She was at the core of the … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Women, Women in Politics, Women writers
Tagged Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Industrial Democracy (1897), Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?(1935), Sydney Webb, The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain, The History of Trade Unionism (1894)
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Rupert Brooke ~ The Soldier Poet
Day 351 of Colourisation Project – April 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. The Turks didn’t get him…a mosquito did. English poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke, best known for his … Continue reading
Emil Otto Hoppé – Long Lost Master Photographer
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
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Ned of Wales & The Most Boring Day of the 20th Century
Day 339 of Colourisation Project – April 11 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, April 11, 1954, 61 years ago, nothing much happened. It is a date … Continue reading
The Salt of the Earth – Mahatma Ghandi
Day 334 of Colourisation Project – April 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, 6 April, 1930 in an act of civil disobedience Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known … Continue reading
