But what if we could see them in color?
The act of colorizing photographs is as old as photography itself. Magic lanterns, autochromes, etc.: It was all done by hand. For some reason, though, my jaw dropped when a coworker directed me to a group on Reddit called . Only a few months old, it has about 16 regular contributors — and approximately 24,000 subscribers. Their work has been a lot lately, and they're not the only people doing this, but they're really good.
I'd been doing a lot of image research for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington when I first came across the Reddit group — and had the LOC photos in the back of my mind. On a whim, and not expecting to ever hear back, I posted in the forum. I was curious to see if they'd be willing to experiment with these March on Washington photos.
