‘Colour Allows Us to Understand in a Deeper Sense’: Hitler, Churchill and Others in a New Light –The Guardian

“My intention is not to replace the original, but to give people the opportunity to see history from a different perspective.” Also to see it more as the photographer saw it, and the way it actually was. The photographer might not have had the choice, or the technology, to take a picture in colour. But looking through the viewfinder, that’s what they saw; the past – even its grimmest, darkest hours – was not in black and white.

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