9 Remarkable D-Day Photos Colourised by Marina Amaral
World War Two
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Marina Amaral is a Brazilian artist. Her remarkable colourisations of original photographs have been compiled in the recent book The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960, authored with Dan Jones. In this video, some of the most famous photographs of the Allied landings during Operation Overlord have been colourised.
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