Marina Amaral

Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs.

Marina Amaral
Marina Amaral
Born1994 (age 26–27)
Belo Horizonte, Brazil[1]
NationalityBrazilian
Websitewww.marinamaral.com

Work

A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college,[2] but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time.[3][4]

Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured.[1][5] Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer.[6][7][8] Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete.[9][4][10][11] Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers.[12]

In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960.[13][14]

In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, under the project title Faces of Auschwitz.[15][16][17] The project was a collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.[18]

Personal life

In 2020, Amaral was revealed to be on the autism spectrum.[19]

References
  1. Morrison, Jenny (21 August 2016). "Fresh light shed on historic black and white photos as artist transforms iconic images of war". Daily Record.
  2. Amaral, Dan Jones ,Marina. "No Color Photos of Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey Existed... Until Now". Smithsonian.
  3. Lee, Dami (29 August 2016). "Brazilian artist makes history feel like the present with beautiful colorized photos". The Verge.
  4. Barifouse, Rafael (24 September 2016). "Las fascinantes imágenes históricas de una artista que colorea nuestras memorias". BBC Mundo (in Spanish).
  5. "Meet Marina Amaral a historical colourist". History TV. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  6. "Marina Amaral, Coloring History". Lamono magazine. 15 September 2016.
  7. Armstrong, Neil (23 October 2016). "Pictures of the Second World War that look like they were taken yesterday". The Daily Telegraph.
  8. "Artista colore fotografias antigas em P&B e resultado é impressionante". catracalivre.com.br (in Portuguese). 3 August 2016.
  9. Mallonee, Laura (25 August 2016). "Travel back in time with the master of photo colorization". Wired.
  10. Oliva, Daigo (4 September 2016). "Mineira Marina Amaral resgata cenas históricas ao colorir fotografias em pb". Folha de São Paulo.
  11. Taylor, Joshua (24 January 2017). "Historic moments brought brilliantly to life as artist uses Photoshop skills to turn iconic black-and-white photos into colour". Daily Mirror.
  12. Kanter, Jake (2017-03-18). "These historical black-and-white photos have been transformed into colour masterpieces by a 21-year-old Brazilian artist". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  13. "See iconic black and white photos brought into colour before your very eyes". Evening Standard. 19 August 2018.
  14. DeGroot, Gerard (4 August 2018). "Review: The Colour of Time: A New History of the World 1850-1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral — the past in full colour" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  15. Mallonee, Laura (26 November 2018). "Auschwitz Photographs Hidden from the Nazis Are Given New Life in Color". Artsy.
  16. "Auschwitz color photo: 'A 14-year-old girl, not just a statistic' - DW - 26.03.2018". DW.COM.
  17. "Colorized picture of Nazi victim pulls at heartstrings of Twitter users - World News - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com.
  18. "75 ans après, un émouvant portrait colorisé d'une adolescente morte à Auschwitz" – via www.leparisien.fr/.
  19. ""Minha vida fez sentido", diz Marina Amaral ao descobrir autismo | VEJA". veja.abril.com.br. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
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