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The Civil War in COLOR for the first time:Painstakingly re-mastered images of a divided America that recreate era in amazing detail.

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Olivia:
Two professional colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination with the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era.

British colorist Jordan Lloyd, 27, met fellow colorist Mads Madsen, 19, from Denmark when he started posting on Madsen's subreddit 'Colorized History'.

Initially it was Madsen who was colorizing images from the Civil War era, but Lloyd eventually got interested and now the two work together restoring the images, improving their technique by giving each other critiques.

Madsen has been interested in the Civil War since he was 12, and was especially fascinated by all the images that emerged from the conflict.

'I love the fact that you can see veins in the eyes of humans born over 200 years ago as clear as day,' Madsen told MailOnline.

With amazing attention to detail, the pictures that Lloyd and Madsen have rendered in color paint a picture of the era and its characters, heroes and villains.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446391/Amazing-Civil-War-photographs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-characters-life-color-time.html#ixzz2gxdEcWEV

Great pictures!

mystery-ak:
Cool...I love articles like this

Lipstick on a Hillary:
Wow, some of those renditions are amazing.  Thanks for posting!

massadvj:
These are fascinating photos, and I am glad to see them as they add to my perception of the people and events depicted.  On the other hand, I would hope these images never replace the originals for the same reason I hope colorized versions of b&w movies never replace the originals.  The original black and white images represent the best the artists and archivists could do given the technology available to them at the time, and their work should be appreciated for what it was.

I must admit, though, these digitally remastered babies are pretty awesome.

famousdayandyear:
Saw no remastered battlefield scenes.  Blood is always red, I suppose.  Mark Twain--a Confederate deserter.  Did not know that.

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