10 Colorized Photos of Famous Landmarks Under Construction

Published 8 years ago

The famous landmarks that you can see here are a reminder of what incredible feats humans are capable of. They were built in a time before modern construction technology was available, which makes the stories behind them even more intriguing. And these remastered photos by digital artist Jordan Lloyd tell those stories like never before.

The artist uses digital editing software to bring colors to the original monochrome photos: “So realistic are the results, that the decades and centuries that separate us from the subjects of these images, simply fall away,” says the author.

Now he’s collaborating with Retronaut’s Wolfgang Wild on a crowdfunding campaign to release The Paper Time Machine – a 300-page coffee table book filled with 130 remastered historical photos.

Can’t get enough of it? Take a look at these famous photographs remastered in color.

More info: dynamichrome (h/t: twistedsifter)

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Officials ride in a penstock pipe of soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam, Arizona 1935

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 Construction of the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1888

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The Taj Mahal with its dome covered to disguise it from enemy bombers, Agra 1942

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Half-completed Tower Bridge, London 1889

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Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 1934

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Gutzon Borglum inspecting work on the face of Washington, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota 1932

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Construction of the bell tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica on the Montmartre Hill in Paris, 1880s

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Re-erecting a trilithon as a part of renovations in Stonehenge, 1920

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Workers building Statue Of Liberty in Paris, 1882

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Nelson’s Column under construction in The Trafalgar Square, 1844

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colorized photos, Dynamichrome, historical photos, Jordan Lloyd, monochrome photos, old photos, Paper Time Machine, photo editing, remastered photo, Retronaut, Wolfgang Wild
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