Wrong?...or right?

[devogue]

Anne Frank is just lovely in both versions - the epitome of hopeful youth.

[SteveB]

That Winston Churchill ain't bad either.

[devogue]

That Winston Churchill ain't bad either.

[Tero]

Wow, now they look like white folk.

[JimC]

My inner purist objects.

I tell him he is only one voice amongst many...

[SteveB]

My inner purist objects.

I tell him he is only one voice amongst many...

Not a very good purist then.

[JimC]

My inner purist objects.

I tell him he is only one voice amongst many...

Not a very good purist then.

He tries to do the right thing, but he's living in a madhouse...

[Red Celt]

Anne Frank is just lovely in both versions - the epitome of hopeful youth.

Have you read her diary? I haven't yet, but an ex did... and said that Anne Frank was less than pleasant - a brat caught in a bad place, at the wrong time (hence tragic) but she wasn't a very nice little girl.

Of course, my ex might be completely wrong. If I ever get around to reading the book, I might come to a better conclusion.

Edit: as for the colourisation of the photographs... just wrong. Things are being added that weren't originally there. Fine, if it's an issue of vanity in a personal image. Not fine, if it's the recording of a historic event. History should never be changed, else it is no longer history - it is an interpretation. That is also true of photographs... regardless of how aesthetically pleasing they are, afterwards.

[SteveB]

Good one, Celt.

[Red Celt]

Good one, Celt.

Why... thank you very much.

[devogue]

Anne Frank is just lovely in both versions - the epitome of hopeful youth.

Have you read her diary? I haven't yet, but an ex did... and said that Anne Frank was less than pleasant - a brat caught in a bad place, at the wrong time (hence tragic) but she wasn't a very nice little girl.

Of course, my ex might be completely wrong. If I ever get around to reading the book, I might come to a better conclusion.

A teenage brat indeed - mad with the hormones, selfish, you name it - I have a 13 year old daughter and she's a fucking nightmare at times, I can tell you. Anne Frank is like Pepys - so open, so honest and...er...frank.

[Red Celt]

A teenage brat indeed - mad with the hormones, selfish, you name it - I have a 13 year old daughter and she's a fucking nightmare at times, I can tell you. Anne Frank is like Pepys - so open, so honest and...er...frank.

OK. I'll keep that in mind (in advance of actually reading it).

[pErvinalia]

Anne Frank is just lovely in both versions - the epitome of hopeful youth.

Have you read her diary? I haven't yet, but an ex did... and said that Anne Frank was less than pleasant - a brat caught in a bad place, at the wrong time (hence tragic) but she wasn't a very nice little girl.

Of course, my ex might be completely wrong. If I ever get around to reading the book, I might come to a better conclusion.

Edit: as for the colourisation of the photographs... just wrong. Things are being added that weren't originally there. Fine, if it's an issue of vanity in a personal image. Not fine, if it's the recording of a historic event. History should never be changed, else it is no longer history - it is an interpretation. That is also true of photographs... regardless of how aesthetically pleasing they are, afterwards.

The "original" black and white is an interpretation too. Which is more accurate?

[Red Celt]

The "original" black and white is an interpretation too. Which is more accurate?

The profile photos are an interpretation of the person (as their clothing and pose were chosen), but the photo of the nuclear cloud isn't an interpretation. It is a static viewpoint of an event.

The most accurate are the ones with the least edits.

[Hermit]

as for the colourisation of the photographs... just wrong. Things are being added that weren't originally there. Fine, if it's an issue of vanity in a personal image. Not fine, if it's the recording of a historic event. History should never be changed, else it is no longer history - it is an interpretation. That is also true of photographs... regardless of how aesthetically pleasing they are, afterwards.

Apart from stating bald facts like "As Chamberlain stepped off the aeroplane waving a piece of paper and proclaimed ' Peace in our time.'" history is always imbued with interpretation. Depending on our point of view we regard some of those interpretations as good and others as bad. Same goes for colourising pictures that were originally created monochrome. Neither Lincoln nor Einstein, nor anyone else for that matter, existed in shades of grey. Colourising photos of them does not add anything. It is an attempt to recreate what the original photograph deleted.