The Colorizing Pro
Art, Nostalgia, and a Theory of Visual Cognition

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Colorizing old photos is not merely about adding color. It is an interpretive act that exposes how human beings mentally construct reality from incomplete information. We do it every day. We're doing it right now. As soon as I employed that construct to add color to old photos, creating art became almost spontaneous.


Black-and-white photos were limited by the technology of their day, leaving us intriguing monochromatic traces of the past. Modern technology allows us to reimagine and experience this past in living color offering us an imperfect but more contemporary view of people and places making the past more relatable and realistic. It's like a time machine bringing the past into the present. Try it. You might like it. I call it my accidental super power.

 

 

   
 

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



Modeling group I was a member of during high school. I'm wearing a blue pin-stripped suit.



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


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Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2011

 
 

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