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Marina Amaral
Marina Amaral
Born
NationalityBrazilian
Websitewww.marinamaral.com

Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs.

Work

A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college,[2] but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time.[3][4]

Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured.[1][5] Although she had always been interested in history, she knew nothing about the process of digital colorization until she read about it on an online forum.[6][7][8] Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer.[9][10][11] Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete.[12][4][13][14] Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers.[15]

In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960.[16][17]

In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, under the project title Faces of Auschwitz.[18][19][20] The project was a collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b Morrison, Jenny (21 August 2016). "Fresh light shed on historic black and white photos as artist transforms iconic images of war". Daily Record.
  2. ^ Amaral, Dan Jones ,Marina. "No Color Photos of Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey Existed... Until Now". Smithsonian.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Lee, Dami (29 August 2016). "Brazilian artist makes history feel like the present with beautiful colorized photos". The Verge.
  4. ^ a b Barifouse, Rafael (24 September 2016). "Las fascinantes imágenes históricas de una artista que colorea nuestras memorias". BBC Mundo (in Spanish).
  5. ^ "Meet Marina Amaral a historical colourist". History TV. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  6. ^ Tausz, Ramona (11 August 2016). "Self-Taught Artist Revitalizes Historical Photos Into Stunning Masterpieces". The Federalist.
  7. ^ Svab, Petr (2 April 2016). "Colored Historical Photos Look Shockingly Lifelike". Epoch Times.
  8. ^ Roberts, Sophie (23 January 2017). "HUE WILL BE AMAZED Stunning colourised photos bring black and white shots from history to life… from D-Day to the Queen's Coronation". The Sun.
  9. ^ "Marina Amaral, Coloring History". Lamono magazine. 15 September 2016.
  10. ^ Armstrong, Neil (23 October 2016). "Pictures of the Second World War that look like they were taken yesterday". The Daily Telegraph.
  11. ^ "Artista colore fotografias antigas em P&B e resultado é impressionante". catracalivre.com.br (in Portuguese). 3 August 2016.
  12. ^ Mallonee, Laura (25 August 2016). "Travel back in time with the master of photo colorization". Wired.
  13. ^ Oliva, Daigo (4 September 2016). "Mineira Marina Amaral resgata cenas históricas ao colorir fotografias em pb". Folha de São Paulo.
  14. ^ Taylor, Joshua (24 January 2017). "Historic moments brought brilliantly to life as artist uses Photoshop skills to turn iconic black-and-white photos into colour". Daily Mirror.
  15. ^ Kanter, Jake (2017-03-18). "These historical black-and-white photos have been transformed into colour masterpieces by a 21-year-old Brazilian artist". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-01-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ "See iconic black and white photos brought into colour before your very eyes". Evening Standard. 19 August 2018.
  17. ^ DeGroot, Gerard (4 August 2018). "Review: The Colour of Time: A New History of the World 1850-1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral — the past in full colour" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  18. ^ Mallonee, Laura (26 November 2018). "Auschwitz Photographs Hidden from the Nazis Are Given New Life in Color". Artsy.
  19. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Auschwitz color photo: 'A 14-year-old girl, not just a statistic' - DW - 26.03.2018". DW.COM.
  20. ^ "Colorized picture of Nazi victim pulls at heartstrings of Twitter users - World News - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com.
  21. ^ "75 ans après, un émouvant portrait colorisé d'une adolescente morte à Auschwitz" – via www.leparisien.fr/.