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Giacomo Puccini – Life Imitating Art

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Originally posted on Random Phoughts:
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,…

Posted in Opera, Opus Loredana, Uncategorized | Tagged Giacomo Puccini, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana | Leave a comment

Jean Genet ~ The Outcast Scribe

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 | 3 Comments

Simply Movita

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 340 of Colourisation Project – April 12 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. When Movita Castaneda died on February 12, 2015, just three months ago, she was the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Uncategorized, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV | Tagged Charles Laughton, Flying Down to Rio, Fort Apache (1948), Girl from Rio (1939), Loredana Crupi, Maria "Movita" Castaneda, Maria Luisa Castaneda, Marlon Brando, Movita, Movita Castaneda, Mutiny on the Bounty, Opus Loredana, Paradise Isle (1937), Rose of the Rio Grande (1938), Saddle Legion (1951), The Mysterious Desperado (1949), Tower of Terror (1941), Wolf Call (1939) | 1 Comment

RIP – The Singing Nun

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, History, Music, Photography, Uncategorized, Women, Women In Music | Tagged Annie Pecher, Debbie Reynolds, Elvis Presley, Jeanine Deckers, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Soeur Sourire, The Beatles, The Singing Nun | 2 Comments

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett: Suffragette and Human Rights Activist – a Steampunk Feminist Perspective

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Originally posted on Cogpunk Steamscribe:
Ida Wells-Barnett was born to be a fighter against injustice. She was born a slave, but the Emancipation Proclamation freed her and her family while she was still just a baby. After the death of her parents…

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Opus Loredana, Suffragette, suffragist | Leave a comment

Félix Nadar – Pioneering Visual Biographer

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 | Leave a comment

Quintessentially Donna Reed

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 265 of Colourisation Project – January 27 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Although she presented a squeaky-clean on-screen image of the archetypal 1950’s housewife and mother, Donna Belle Mullenger … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Uncategorized, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV | Tagged American Film Institute, Donna Belle Mullenger, Donna Reed, Donna Reed Show, Loredana Crupi | Leave a comment

Anna May Wong – Reluctant Dragon Lady

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 241 of Colourisation Project – January 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. A third-generation American, Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star. Starting out in … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Uncategorized, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV | Tagged Anna May Wong, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend., Loredana Crupi, Marlene Dietrich, OpusLoredana, Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961), Portrait in Black., Racism, Shanghai Express (1932), The Good Earth (1937), The Toll of the Sea (1922) | 3 Comments

Doublé Faux Pas ?

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

Day 197 of Colourisation Project – November 20 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s image is a wonderful photo taken circa 1910 of Tamara Karsavina, a Russian prima ballerina. … Continue reading →

Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Dance, Photography, russia, Uncategorized, Women | Tagged Ballets Russes, Grigori Rasputin, Henry James Bruce, Imperial Russian Ballet, Loredana Crupi, National Portrait Gallery of London, Royal Ballet, Russian Ballet, Tamara Karsavina, Vera Karalli | Leave a comment

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

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