If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

Black-and-white photos have their own nostalgic charm, but sometimes they can feel a little distant, like glimpses of a world we can’t quite connect with. Now, imagine seeing those same vintage ...

Photos often shape the way we look at people we don't know. But if a person died a long time ago and the only remaining portraits of them are damaged black-and-whites, we might not get the full ...

Alfred T. Palmer, “Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a 'Vengeance' dive bomber, Tennessee” (1943) converted to grayscale by the author. For most of the history of ...

French artist Sébastien de Oliveira is best known for his meticulous colorization of historical black and white photographs, a process that blends archival research with a distinctly artistic ...

History looks boring in black and white until someone decides to give it life with color. Suddenly the past jumps off the page with people, streets, and moments that feel shockingly real. You see ...

Two folds from an Astrolin Color Card pamphlet by Établissement Georget Fils Peintures Laquées et Vernis, Chantenay-Lès-Nantes (c. 1906), 6 3/10 x 3 3/4 inches (image courtesy Bibliothèque Forney, ...

We often think of history in black and white, quite literally. And that’s because most very old photographs are indeed monochrome, taken before a time when images could easily and affordably be ...