[6B] History of Design

[6B-02] A Consideration of the History of Colorization of Black-and-White Photography

Reading from History : Colorization of Black-and-White Photography Past and Present.

*Kosei Ito¹, Tomoko Inoue¹ (1. Kyushu Sangyo University)

Keywords:Colorization, History of photography

Colorization of black-and-white photography is the process of converting a photograph expressed in shades of black into a color photograph rich in color. Since the early modern era, it has captured our human lives and events, and since the modern era, it has continued to record them in vivid colors, serving as a means of visually disseminating information to the world.In this paper, we define the flow of technology from its birth to the present day as the "History of Colorization of Black-and-White Photography," which is based on the history of photography, and we will decipher the "present" through a bird's-eye view of history.