Retrographic: History's Most Exciting Images Transformed into Living Colour [Hardcover]

Through the careful selection of striking images and dedicated colourization research, Retrographic will take you on a visual tour of the distant past. Many of these moments are already burned into our collective memory through the power of photography as shared by people across the 190-year long Age of the Image. And now, these visual time capsules are collected together for the first time and presented in living colour.including the following topics:19th Century: the Victorians, exploration, colonialism, indigenous people, science, warfare20th century: lifestyle, WW1, Great Depression, WW2, Hollywood, US, Russian, German, French and British history, the Cold War, 50's and 60's icons and the social revolutionWith a forward by Royal Photographic Society Ambassador Jeff Vickers, Retrographic is littered with informative gems and a powerful narrative that bounces themes of conflict, exploration, progress, regression, culture and hope across the Age of the Image. Retrographic is the ultimate celebration of human civilization???s most impactful medium.It's difficult to imagine some of the key points in history in full colour. Unless you were there to live through them, it may seem that key events all happened in black and white. Was life in colour before the mid 20th century? Of course, it was, and a new photography book has been released to help bring these images to a new audience in stunning and enlightening colour.Daily Mail OnlineThrough the careful selection of striking images and dedicated colourization research, Retrographic will take you on a visual tour of the distant past. Many of these moments are already burned into our collective memory through the power of photography as shared by people across the 190-year long Age of the Image. And now, these visual time capsules are collected together for the first time and presented in living colour.including the following topics:19th Century: the Victorians, exploration, colonialism, indigenous people, science, warfalS