WASHINGTON—The invention and implementation of motion pictures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries helped capture some of the most important events in American history. Footage of Babe Ruth ...

Black and white images by famous Black photographers, like Charles “Teenie” Harris, are the focus of a new student art program. Local photographer Randall Coleman is teaching students across the ...

DEFIANCE, Ohio — A business specializing in historical photographs is gaining new momentum for the future by colorizing our past. Vicki Heilshorn started her home business of selling artwork ...

I’m a fan of classic Hollywood movies, and so over break I spent part of my time screening a marathon of 1930s screwball comedies. In the middle of watching dramatic, grayscale pictures like “It ...

Film stocks from a century ago weren’t just limited to only capturing details in black and white; they could only capture a limited band of the color spectrum, resulting in images of famous ...

In the photograph, an adolescent girl wearing an oversized blue prison uniform stares emptily at the camera. Her tawny hair is cropped short; her face is gaunt. Her bottom lip is swollen, marked by a ...

Never underestimate the power of color. Seeing old family photos go from black and white to brilliant, painterly hues can be an emotional gift for grandparents and other loved ones, but colorization ...

Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — For the first time television audiences in the ...