Artist Colorizes Old Photos, And It Might Change The Way You Perceive History (50 Best Pics)

Jason Sargent Wednesday, December 17, 2025

- - Artist Colorizes Old Photos, And It Might Change The Way You Perceive History (50 Best Pics)

HidrėlėyDecember 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM

Photographs have a unique way of preserving memories, freezing moments that might otherwise fade with time. While old photos allow us to glimpse the past, their black-and-white nature can sometimes make those moments feel distant and hard to relate to.

That’s where digital artist Sébastien de Oliveira steps in. Using Photoshop, he carefully restores and colorizes historical photographs, bringing new life and realism to images from another era. His work makes the people and moments in these photos feel closer, more vivid, and easier to connect with.

Scroll down to explore a selection of Sébastien’s best colorized images and see history through a fresh perspective.

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#1 Us Soldier Takes A Break Near Château-Thierry, France, August 1944 Life Magazine Archives

#2 Amelia Earhart With Her Cord 812 Phaeton Car And Her Lockheed Airplane, 1937

#3 Sergeant Franklin Williams, Home On Leave From Army Duty, With His Girlfriend Ellen Hardin, Splitting An Ice Cream, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1942

#4 A Woman Driving A Sports Car Around Hollywood With Thor The Great Dane Riding Shotgun, 1961. Photographed By Ralph Crane

#7 Frida Kahlo On A Small Boat At Xochimilco, Mexico, Photographed In 1936

#8 Actress Sophia Loren, Rome, 1963

#9 James Stewart On The Phone At His Father’s Hardware Store, 1945. Photographed By Peter Stackpole

#10 Preparing For The Landing, 1944

#11 1940 Life Magazine “Miami & Miami Beach Winter Boom”

#12 A Young Girl Read A Comic Book At A Supermarket, Anchorage, Alaska, 1958

#13 Amelia Earhart, Photographed In 1932

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#15 People In Vale, Oregon, For The Fourth Of July Celebration

#16 Scrabble Inventor Alfred Butts (Left) And Promoter James Brunot Posed With Oversized Game, November 1953

#17 Three Women Eating Spaghetti On Inflatable Mattresses At Capri, 1939. Photographed By Hamilton Wright

#18 John Fitzgerald Kennedy And Jackie Kennedy In 1953

#19 Photographer Harry Adams Stands With A Young Woman In Front Of His Barbershop. Los Angeles, 1956

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#21 Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1925

#22 Civil Air Patrol Student, Taking A Sunbath At The Silver Lake Airfield, Baker California, 1944

#23 Marilyn Monroe Reading, Beverly Carlton Hotel Los Angeles, 1952

#24 Brigitte Bardot In A Boat, 1959

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#26 Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, May 1923

#27 Actress Clara Bow Photographed In 1927

#28 Teenage Girls And Boys Train For Defense Work Made Possible By Tva At A National Administration School. Knoxville, Tennessee, June 1942

#29 Manis The Orangutan And Clint Eastwood, Behind The Scenes Of The Film "Every Which Way But Loose " By James Fargo (1978)

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#31 Unemployed Men, San Francisco, 1937

#32 1947 Ford Bubble Glass Top

#33 James Dean And Elizabeth Taylor Taking A Break From Filming "Giant" In June 1955

#34 Hal And Betty Takier, Jitterbug Dancing 1938

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#36 Puppeteers Daniel Seagren (Left) And Jim Henson (Center) Holding And Working Ernie, And Frank Oz (Right) With Bert In A 'Sesame Street' Rehearsal, C. 1970