The book is a collaboration between a gifted Brazilian artist and a leading British historian.

Marina Amaral has created 200 stunning images, using contemporary photographs as the basis for her full-colour digital renditions and bringing each of them to life in a style uniquely her own. Dan Jones has written a narrative that anchors each image in its context, and weaves them into a vivid account of the world that made the world we live in today. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen words, The Colour of Time offers a unique – and often beautiful – perspective on the past.

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[The Colour of Time] does something simple yet extraordinary. It takes black-and-white photos of historic events and colours them in. The effect is transformative.
Daily Telegraph
Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour ... Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful.
The Times, Books of the Year.
A clever, deftly executed book ... Marina Amaral has chosen 200 black-and-white photographs, taken between 1850 and 1960, and skilfully colourised them, which gives them new life, new relevance and new power ... Dan Jones gives a nicely thoughtful commentary to it all.
Daily Mail, Coffee Table Books of the Year.
Authors

Marina Amaral

Marina Amaral is a self-taught digital colorist with an incredible gift for breathing life into the past. She takes monochrome photos and gives them color, using rigorous historical research and a natural artist’s gift to produce rich, immediate, incredibly moving images of the most important events in world history. She was regarded by WIRED Magazine as the master of photo colorization. Her work has been widely reproduced in the most important media outlets around the globe, such as the BBC, CNN, the London Evening Standard, Le Monde, the Library of Congress and History Channel.

Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His internationally bestselling works include The Plantagenets, Magna Carta and The Templars. He has written and hosted dozens of TV shows including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series ‘Secrets of Great British Castles’. He writes a weekly column for the London Evening Standard and his writing also appears in newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, GQ and The Spectator. He lives in Surrey, UK.