Please don’t use “colourised” photographs, it is disrespectful of the original work and entirely unnecessary.
Please don’t use “colourised” photographs, it is disrespectful of the original work and entirely unnecessary.
To add a little perspective to my post because some of the responses and DMs I have received are absolutely wild; I *asked*. I said *please*. There is no need to become so spectacularly angry about my point of view that I feel the need to block you.
In the Top Photo archive site the image is reversed, I don't know which is the right way, it might have been the Life Picture Editor which decided the most common orientation. Deciding the original intention of a photographer is hard unless they're in Magnum. In Topham's case he was a freelance.
To be honest, if they had wanted it colourised then they would have either done it themselves or had it done at the time. They probably wouldn’t have waited 80 years for some ai-tech to do it without their being asked.
Pretty much all of the colourised images look like they have been coloured-in, with the colours looking flat and false. Colourised moving pictures often have all of that and poor registration, sometimes with weirdly aliased chroma components that jitter. Personally I like B&W, as original.