Marina Amaral

Marina Amaral
Marina Amaral
Born Belo Horizonte, Brazil[1]
Nationality Brazilian
Website www.marinamaral.com

Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian colorist. She specializes in adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop through a process of careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured.[1][2] A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college but quit in April 2015 to pursue art full-time.[3][4]

Amaral reports that although she had always been interested in history she knew nothing about the process of digital colorization until she read about it on an online forum.[5][6][7] Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer.[8][9][10] Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete.[11][4][12][13] Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers.[14] In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for Dan Jones' book, "Colours of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960."[15]

References

  1. 1 2 Morrison, Jenny (21 August 2016). "Fresh light shed on historic black and white photos as artist transforms iconic images of war". Daily Record.
  2. ↑ "Meet Marina Amaral a historical colourist". History TV. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  3. ↑ Lee, Dami (29 August 2016). "Brazilian artist makes history feel like the present with beautiful colorized photos". The Verge.
  4. 1 2 Barifouse, Rafael (24 September 2016). "Las fascinantes imágenes históricas de una artista que colorea nuestras memorias". BBC Mundo (in Spanish).
  5. ↑ Tausz, Ramona (11 August 2016). "Self-Taught Artist Revitalizes Historical Photos Into Stunning Masterpieces". The Federalist.
  6. ↑ Svab, Petr (2 April 2016). "Colored Historical Photos Look Shockingly Lifelike". Epoch Times.
  7. ↑ Roberts, Sophie (23 January 2017). "HUE WILL BE AMAZED Stunning colourised photos bring black and white shots from history to life… from D-Day to the Queen's Coronation". The Sun.
  8. ↑ "Marina Amaral, Coloring History". Lamono magazine. 15 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Armstrong, Neil (23 October 2016). "Pictures of the Second World War that look like they were taken yesterday". The Daily Telegraph.
  10. ↑ "Artista colore fotografias antigas em P&B e resultado é impressionante". catracalivre.com.br (in Portuguese). 3 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Mallonee, Laura (25 August 2016). "Travel back in time with the master of photo colorization". Wired.
  12. ↑ Oliva, Daigo (4 September 2016). "Mineira Marina Amaral resgata cenas históricas ao colorir fotografias em pb". Folha de São Paulo.
  13. ↑ Taylor, Joshua (24 January 2017). "Historic moments brought brilliantly to life as artist uses Photoshop skills to turn iconic black-and-white photos into colour". Daily Mirror.
  14. ↑ Kanter, Jake (2017-03-18). "These historical black-and-white photos have been transformed into colour masterpieces by a 21-year-old Brazilian artist". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  15. ↑ Jones, Dan (2018). Colour of Time: A New History of the modern world 1850-1960. Illustrated by Marina Amaral. [S.l.]: HEAD OF ZEUS. ISBN 9781786692689. OCLC 1007038656.


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