Foto adalah salah satu media yang bisa mengabadikan momen atau sebuah kejadian. Ketika melihat foto bersejarah hitam putih, sering terlupakan bahwa kehidupan pada zaman itu juga kaya dengan warna. Meskipun teknologi kamera belum secanggih seperti sekarang, namun warna kehidupan pada saat itu sama dengan warna-warna hari ini, seolah-olah gambaran buram dan tak "hidup".

Komunitas orang-orang pecinta sejarah yang berkumpul dalam wadah Reddit, menyadari hal itu dan mengerjakan proyek untuk membawa kembali warna ke galeri foto bersejarah hitam putih. Proyek "COLORIZED HISTORY" (r/ColorizedHistory) yang didedikasikan demi hasil imaji yang berkualitas tinggi ini, kontribusi dari para seniman digital baik profesional maupun amatir yang memiliki ketrampilan olah digital. Mereka semua menggunakan bahan referensi sejarah terkait serta kepekaan warna dari mata alami untuk mewarnai.

Dan the colorizers, demikian mereka menyebut dirinya, memang tidak mengklaim mereka selalu akurat soal pilihan warna. Sebab riset mereka dapat mengetahui warna dari sebuah bendera negara atau logo resmi, tetapi lebih sulit untuk menentukan warna rok seorang wanita, misalnya.

Bagaimana pun, proyek ini berhasil membuat kita melihat rangkaian foto bersejarah yang menunjang pandangan baru. Foto-foto yang merekam berbagai sejarah umat manusia kini hadir dalam warna. Foto hitam putih yang dikerjakan cukup banyak, mulai peristiwa besar politik, bencana, perang, keseharian (daily life), sampai portrait figur seperti Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, pengarang Mark Twain, dan lain-lain.

Reddit r/ColorizedHistory

 

1. Foto Bersejarah – Raising The Flag Over Iwo Jima

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang

Colorized by: zuzahin

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 2

Photograph via: probell.com

 

2. Foto Bersejarah – British Troops Cheerfully Board their Train for the First Stage of their Trip to the Western Front, England September 20, 1939

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 3

Colorized by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 4

Photograph via: photosofwar.net

 

3. Foto Bersejarah – Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 5

Colorized by: Edvos

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 6

Photograph via: canasanta.com

 

4. Foto Bersejarah – Abandoned Boy Holding a Stuffed Toy Animal, London 1945

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 7

Colorized by: HansLucifer

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 8

Photograph via Toni Frissel

 

5. Foto Bersejarah – 'Old Gold', Country Store, 1939

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 9

Colorized by: photojacker

foto bersejarah pewarnaan ulang 10

Photograph via: Dorothea Lange

 

6. Foto Bersejarah – Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway

Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

Photograph via: hqdesktop.net 

7. Foto Bersejarah – View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864

View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864

Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway

View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864

Photograph via: nashville.about.com

 

8. Foto Bersejarah - W.H. Murphy and His Associate Demonstrating their Bulletproof Vest on October 13, 1923

W.H. Murphy and His Associate Demonstrating their Bulletproof Vest on October 13, 1923

Colorized by: zuzahin

W.H. Murphy and His Associate Demonstrating their Bulletproof Vest on October 13, 1923

Photograph via: National Photo Company

 

9. Foto Bersejarah - The Three Kennedy brothers Pose Outside the Oval Office

The Three Kennedy brothers Pose Outside the Oval Office

Colorized by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

The Three Kennedy brothers Pose Outside the Oval Office

Photograph via: ImaginaryHistory on Reddit

 

10. Foto Bersejarah - Neil Armstrong Training for the Appolo Mission

Neil Armstrong Training for the Appolo Mission

Colorized by: zuzahin

Neil Armstrong Training for the Appolo Mission

Photograph via: blog.usa.gov

 

11. Foto Bersejarah - Nikola Tesla, 1893

Nikola Tesla, 1893

Colorized by: Danna Keller

Nikola Tesla, 1893

Photograph via: Napoleon Sarony

 

12. Foto Bersejarah – Mark Twain in the Garden, Circa 1900

Mark Twain in the Garden, Circa 1900

Colorized by: zuzahin

Mark Twain in the Garden, Circa 1900

Photograph via: imgur.com 

13. Foto Bersejarah – Joseph Goebbels Scowling at Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after Finding out he's Jewish, 1933

Joseph Goebbels Scowling at Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after Finding out he's Jewish, 1933

Colorized by: photojacker

Joseph Goebbels Scowling at Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after Finding out he's Jewish, 1933

Photograph via: life.time.com

 

14. Foto Bersejarah – Charlie Chaplin at the Age of 27, 1916

Charlie Chaplin at the Age of 27, 1916

Colorized by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

Charlie Chaplin at the Age of 27, 1916

Photograph via: wikipedia.org

 

15. Foto Bersejarah – Japanese Archers, Circa 1860

Japanese Archers, Circa 1860

Colorized by: photojacker

Japanese Archers, Circa 1860

Photograph via: badasshistoricalpictures.com

 

16. Foto Bersejarah – Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937

Hindenburg Disaster May 6 1937

Colorized by: Dana Keller

Hindenburg Disaster May 6 1937

Photograph via: Murray Becker

 

17. Foto Bersejarah – Elvis Presley Meets Secretly with President Nixon to Become a "Federal Agent at Large in the War on Drugs", December 1970

Elvis Presley meets secretly with President Nixon to become a Federal Agent at Large in the War on Drugs, December 1970

Colorized by: ExtraNoise

Elvis Presley meets secretly with President Nixon to become a Federal Agent at Large in the War on Drugs, December 1970

Photograph via: wikipedia.org

 

18. Foto Bersejarah – Martin Luther King Jr. & other Civil Rights leaders meeting with President John F. Kennedy & Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office during the Civil Rights March

Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders meeting with President John F. Kennedy & Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office during the Civil Rights March

Colorized by: zuzahin

Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders meeting with President John F. Kennedy & Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office during the Civil Rights March

Photograph via: biography.com

 

19. Foto Bersejarah – Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

Colorized by: traquea

Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

Photograph via: Bob Willoughby

 

 20. Foto Bersejarah – Malcolm X chats with Muhammad Ali – New York 1963

Malcolm X chats with Muhammad Ali - New York 1963

Colorized by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

Malcolm X chats with Muhammad Ali - New York 1963

Photograph via: theredlist.fr
Via: National Geographic Indonesia

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