Photographs are like time machines. One way that we can turn back the hands
of time is to colorize black and white photos, and see them again like it just
happened. That is what I do. I repair and add color to old photographs using
science derived from art.

Click here to see my new tabletop art books: Beyond Colorizing.

It's Vintage - Like You've Never Seen It!

Melvin Hale, Ph.D.

Postcard photo of Palm Canyon Drive, Palms Springs, California
c.1943


Chi Chi and Cubana

"Photographs offer a view of life somehow unfinished." Luc Sante



Modeling group I was a member of during high school.
I'm wearing the blue suit with the hot pink tie and hankie.

Colorized in 2020.



Pretty Girl and a 1953 Ford Victoria
Los Angeles
1954




Article on KCET website about ArtistLA artwork and
the Archives Bazaar


The Figueroa Bus on the Los Angeles Railway
Los Angeles
1926


Featured on
HipHopWeekly Magazine Website
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2011

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