Artist Spends 3000 Hours To Colorize Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People

Mario Unger is an Austrian photographer and digital artist whose main work is colorizing and restoring old photographs. The artist says the reason for doing all this work is to reduce the felt distance in time a little bit. Mario says he loves black and white photography but thinks some of them need color - "Most of B&W photography was done for one reason, there just was no color film!". Check out the artist's colored historic photos in the gallery below! More info: unarts.at | Instagram | Facebook | h/t

#1 Albert Einstein

#2 Adrienne Ames ("From Hell To Heaven", 1933)

#3 Maud Wagner CA 1905

#4 Mulberry Street, New York, 1900

#5 Evelyn Nesbit CA 1900

#6 Texas Couple, Early 20th Century, Heavy Restoration

#7 Grace Kelly

#8 Walter Catty Allen CA 1900

#9 Picasso

#10 Laurel Hardy, UK Tour, 1953

#11 Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca", 1942

#12 Oscar Wilde

#13 Jerome, L.E., 1900

#14 Mark Twain

#15 East Side Jewish Market, 1895

#16 Edmund Hillary, 1953

#17 Greta Garbo

#18 Walt Disney, 1931

#19 Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

#20 Tsar Nikolaus Ii

#21 Grace Kelly

#22 In Honor Of A Great Person. Sophia Magdalena Scholl (1921-1943). Executed 75 Years Ago By The Greatest Criminals Humanity Has Ever Seen

#23 Puppet Designer, 1936

#24 Silvia Sidney And Henry Fonda In "You Only Live Once" (1937)

#25 The Andrews Sisters

#26 Che Guevara

#27 Mark Twain, 1907

#28 "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944

#29 Old Man, 1890

#30 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922

#31 Babe Ruth CA 1920

#32 Colley, Mrs. F. & Bell, Mrs. C.M. 1901

#33 Grace Kelly

#34 Hellen Keller

#35 Rachmaninoff CA 1915

#36 Victor Hugo, 1876

#37 Mary Badham And Gregory Peck In 'To Kill A Mockingbird' (1962)

#38 Grace Kelly With Robert Cummings, Famous Bruegel Painting On The Wall

#39 Heffner, Mrs. T.M. 1900

#40 Crown Prince Rudolf Of Austria, 1889 (Year Of His Suicide)

#41 Louis And Grace

#42 Buffalo Bill, 1906

#43 Kaiser Wilhelm II From Germany

#44 Last Photo Of Oliver Hardy, 1957

#45 Julie Adams In "Creature From The Black Lagoon", 1954

#46 Buck Craske By Olive Edis CA 1910

#47 Greta Garbo

#48 Old Tom Morris, 1867

#49 Ellen Terry At Age Sixteen, By Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864

#50 Marilyn Monroe, 1951

#51 Errol Flyn

#52 Albert Einstein

#53 Walt Whitman CA 1860

#54 Toulouse Lautrec

#55 Laurel & Hardy, 1933

#56 Louis Pasteur By Felix Nadar CA 1890

#57 Margaret O'Brien (1937-) In "Lost Angel" (1943)

#58 Marlon Brando As Marc Antony, 1953

#59 Grace Kelly

#60 Franz Liszt, 1886

#61 "Once Upon A Time", 1944

#62 Mickey Rooney, 1930s

#63 Al Grey

#64 Gioacchino Rossini, 1856

#65 Leo Tolstoy, 1897

#66 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 1893, Elephant Hunting, India

#67 Boris Karloff As Imhotep In "The Mummy", 1932

#68 Charles Baudelaire, 1853

#69 June Allyson CA 1940

#70 Powerhouse, 1920

#71 Child CA 1870

#72 Mercer Washington, Baseball Player, 1896

#73 Fridtjof Nansen

#74 Portrait Of The Photographer Dr. George Wharton James (1858-1923) CA 1908

#75 Henry Ford, 1863-1947

#76 Jascha Heifetz, 1920

#77 Enrico Caruso CA 1910

#78 "Lotion" Tar Bishop

#79 John L. Burns, The Old Hero Of Gettysburg, 1863

#80 Belcher Johnson By Olive Edis CA 1910

#81 Billy The Kid

#82 Lewis (Powell) Payne Minutes Before He Was Executed, 1865. He Was A Conspirator In The Lincoln Assassination

#83 Woman In The White House, 1944

#84 Stewart Granger CA 1933

#85 Punlun, 1870

#86 Walt Whitman, 1858

#87 Egon Schiele, 1914

#88 Photographer C. M. Bell CA 1890

#89 James Buchanan, 1857-1861

#90 Thomas Wodrow Wilson, 1913 -1921

#91 Ed Walsh, 1911

#92 Chaplin And Sousa Not Exactly Fitting The Post, But Sousa Is Wearing A Uniform At Least

#93 C. M. Bell Jung CA 1865

#94 U.S.C.P. 60 Policeman CA 1890

#95 US Civil War Admiral David Dixon Porter CA 1860

#96 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841

#97 Roger Fenton As "Zuave", Crimean War, 1856

#98 Rasputin CA 1910

#99 General Oglesby CA 1862

#100 Gustav Mahler

#101 Kaiser Franz Joseph, 1895. The Second To Last Austrian Emporer In His Military Uniform

#102 German Naval Officer, WWI, CA 1915