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Proper engineering!
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There’s every reason you ever need right there in that photo to buy German.
This is an absolutely remarkable piece of work - similar in effect to They Shall Never Grow Old
Her website is tremendous
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Somehow the b & w pics have more atmosphere.
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There is something compelling about ww2 in colour though.
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Yes in many ways. Colour somehow modernizes though. When you consider the above wasn’t so long ago, somehow the colour pics afford a different kind of impact to B&W.
I prefer black and white photographs in general but the colour and digitally restored ones definitely adds a different slant to them.
As I used to do some desk-top publishing I’m fascinated by the process Marina Amaral uses to restore and colourise her work.
I don’t dislike the colour ones, just a preference for b & w.
I got the complete works of Laurel & Hardy on DVD some years ago. Many had been, very cleverly, turned into colour versions. I couldn’t get away with them, much preferring the originals. Fortunately both versions were on the DVD’s.
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Don’t let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons
- Orson Welles weeks before his death commenting on a planned colorization of Citizen Kane.
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I’m not surprised. Some of the early Technicolor movies were truly awful. The Caine Mutiny was a case in point. Great film, shocking colours.
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Black and white typically gives a timeless sense to a photo which I generally prefer too.
The Amaral colorised Auschwitz registration photos though are shocking because they look so contemporaneous, like they were taken a few minutes ago…almost unbearable to look at.
Most colorisation is for me a little artificial and seems a little gimmicky. The Amaral Photoshop processing is however very subtle and appears realistic, very clever and compelling. Thanks Allan.
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Word of the day 
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The important thing for me is the painstaking research she does to ensure the work she undertakes is as accurate as possible. I will leave the Auschwitz photos for another time too harrowing.
I’ve bought the book Ben so look forward to reading it.