Past caring: archive, affect, and whiteness in digital colourisation.
The digital colourisation of historical photographs has received prominent and favourable media attention since the 2010s; several museums, heritage organisations, and publishers have adopted it. In the US and British contexts, both the selection of images to colourise and the ways in which their co...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 56 - 70 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2025
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