Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) Colorized 1940 photo

Always a pleasure colorizing Ingrid Bergman photos. Here's one from a photo taken in 1940, a year after completing Intermezzo where she emerged a star. The tall 5'9" Ingrid would film Die vier Gesellen (The Four Companions).in Germany as it started to plunge Europe into WWII. According to her biographer Charlotte Chandler (2007), Ingrid had initially looked at Nazis as a "temporary aberration, 'too foolish to be taken seriously'. She believed Germany would not start a war." Bergman felt that "the good people there would not permit it". In 1945, she and her first husband, Dr. Petter Aron Lindström, became US citizens.

Ava Gardner, colorized from a 1954 studio photo.

Angelina Jolie, colorized from a modern b&w photo

Used selective colorization to highlight her more prominent facial feature.  Nor original as this was earlier done on Marilyn Monroe.  The 3rd is a complete colorized photo. 

Colorized Vintage Portrait of Cleo de Merode (1875-1966)

Another colorized vintage dark beauty (dark as in darkly photographed), a deadringer for the young Isabella Rosellini, daughter of the late Ingrid Bergman,. This time, someone quite popular during her time - the French Ballet Dancer Cleo De Merode (1875 - 1966) taken in 1903 . She was more known for her legendary beauty than dancing skills and at 22 became the mistress of 61-year old Belgian King Leopold II after attending one of her ballet performances. The model of choice among painters, sculptors and photographers (considered the most photographed woman during her prime) she was the first elite ballerina to dance with the Follies Bergere creating a sensation and a more modern following.

I made extensive creative liberties as you can see in the comparative. I threw out historic accuracy to get the outcome I want. In the first place, I have no information on her eyes and hair color.as the online sources I visited didn't have them (No problem as I can alter this when I have the information.) As it is, black hair and blue eyes are rare among peoples, but they do exist mostly in northern Europe. (Elizabeth Taylor who was British by birth, had raven hair and violet eyes. and was an example of a rare DNA mix.).

Her jewelry was a bit pathetic so I composited one from an online gold chain file. I added a rear bun on her head just to echo the red on her blouse which was also composited from a red mink coat. Her eyelashes which were only hinted at in the original were further detailed.

Colorized Vintage Portrait of a Women from the Ignet Tribe in Northern Philippines (circa 1910)

This is a colorized vintage portrait of a woman from the Itneg tribe found in the northern Philippines, particularly in the Abra province.  Apart form the Malay race features (no blues or green eyes), several coloring options on the clothes and ornaments can be made and this is one I did. The original vintage photo below was among the few large portraits I can find only dealing with Philippine historic fashions and peoples.  Most are small in the 300-500pixel range with too little details to colorize leaving more room for guesswork.   

This work appeared in the  2nd edition of the 12-volume Enclopedia of Philippine Art produced by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, which was launched in May 2019  It is captioned in one of the pages under the People Section on the 3rd volume, describing the visual arts of the Tinguian or Itned Tribes of Northern Philippines.