Retrographic: History's Most Exciting Images Transformed into Living Colour - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908211504 ISBN 13: 9781908211507

Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2017

Synopsis

The past has never looked so alive as presented on the jaw-droppingly handsome pages of Retrographic, a ground-breaking book hailed in the media as a revolutionary new way to access the past. By gathering an exclusive collection of 120 of the world’s most important images from photographic grandmasters such as Dorothea Lange and Alfred Eisenstaedt, as-well-as Pulitzer Prize winners Malcolm Brown and Nick Ut - this is a book which truly celebrates our shared visual heritage.
Through accepting Retrographic into its prestigious research collection, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has recognised the book’s importance. Alongside rarer images, Retrographic transforms these world-famous classics from the black and white of the past, and allows these visual time-capsules to explode into the living colour of the 21st century.
The skilfully colourised photographs provided by Retrographic's talented team of international contributors are displayed alongside a fact-packed narrative from digital journalist Michael D. Carroll.

About this title

About the Author

Author Michael D. Carroll is the founder and photographic director of bespoke photo-agency Media Drum World. He lives in Birmingham, UK with his wife and daughter.

From the Back Cover

Through the careful selection of striking images and dedicated colourization research, Retrographic will take you on a visual tour of the distant past. Many of these moments are already burned into our collective memory through the power of photography as shared by people across the 177-year long Age of the Image. And now, these visual time capsules are collected together for the first time and presented in living colour. Littered with informative gems and a powerful narrative that bounces themes of conflict, exploration, progress, regression, culture and hope across the Age of the Image, Retrographic is the ultimate celebration of human civilization's most impactful medium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908211504
• ISBN 13: 9781908211507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Michael D. Carroll