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Category Archives: France
In Flanders Fields ~ We are the Dead
Day 361 of Colourisation Project – May 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Inspired by the death of his friend in combat, Canadian Officer, Major John McCrae composed one … Continue reading
Jean Genet ~ The Outcast Scribe
Day 343 of Colourisation Project – April 15 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. “Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, French Literature, Literature, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Andre Gide, Brassai, Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Our Lady of the Flowers, Querelle of Brest, The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids, The Screens, The Thief's Journal
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RIP – The Singing Nun
Day 326 of Colourisation Project – March 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. When police officers found the lifeless bodies of 52-year-old Jeanine Deckers and her lover, Annie Pecher … Continue reading
Jules Verne – Patron Saint of Science Fiction
Day 321 of Colourisation Project – March 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Universally recognized as the patron saint of science fiction, his works have laid much of the foundation … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, French Literature, History, Hollywood, Literature, Photography
Tagged 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Gabriel Verne, Jules Verne, Loredana Crupi, Nellie Bly, Opus Loredana, Steve Fossett, The Mysterious Island, Voyages Extraordinaires, Wiley Post
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Félix Nadar – Pioneering Visual Biographer
Day 320 of Colourisation Project – March 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. What do Sarah Bernhardt, Alexandre Dumas (pere), Alexandre Dumas (fils), George Sand, Franz Liszt, Édouard Manet, Hector … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, History, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexandre Dumas Fils, Alexandre Dumas père, Édouard Manet, Botany Bay, Charles Baudelaire, Félix Nadar, Five Weeks in a Balloon, Franz Liszt, From the Earth to the Moon, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, George Sand, Gustave Doré, Hector Berlioz, Honoré Daumier, Jules Verne, Le Géant (The Giant), Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Paris Photographe, Quand j’étais photographe, Sarah Bernhardt, Victor Hugo, When I Was a Photographer
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The Curie Dynasty
Day 314 of Colourisation Project – March 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born in Paris, France in 1897, Irène Joliot-Curie was a French physicist, who married another French … Continue reading
Maurice Ravel ~ Unraveling Boléro
Day 304 of Colourisation Project – March 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. In the 1979 movie 10, Bo Derek’s character asks, “Did you ever do it to Ravel’s … Continue reading
Bessie Coleman – Free Barnstorming Pilot
Day 264 of Colourisation Project – January 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born on this day, January 26, in 1892, Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman broke through the gender and … Continue reading
Posted in African-American Women, Colorization, Colourisation, France, History, Photography, USA, Women
Tagged Bessie Coleman, Loredana Crupi
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Édith Piaf – La Voix
Day 226 of Colourisation Project – December 19 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born in Paris on this day, December 19, 1915, Édith Giovanna Gassion, better known as Édith … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, Music, Photography, Women
Tagged Édith Giovanna Gassion, Édith Piaf, Hymne à l'amour (1949), Je Ne Regrette Rien (1960), l'Accordéoniste (1955), La Foule (1957), La Vie en Rose (1946), Loredana Crupi, Milord (1959), Non, Padam ... Padam ... (1951)
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Jean Marais – Swashbuckling Icon
Day 218 of Colourisation Project – December 11 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, December 11, 1913, Jean Marais was a popular French cinema actor and director … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, France, Photography
Tagged Beauty and the Beast (1946), Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, L'Inconcevable Jean Cocteau, Le Capitain Fracasse, Le Passe Muraille, Loredana Crupi, marais: L'Histoire de Ma Vie., Orphée (1949), Stealing Beauty, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man Passing Through the Wall
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