Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs.

Work

A self-taught artist, she was an

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student in college, but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time. Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using

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, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured. Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer. Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete. Each colorized photo may include hundreds of

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. In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, ''The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960''. In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of

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prisoners, under the project title ''Faces of Auschwitz''. The project was a collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

Personal life

In 2020, Amaral was revealed to be on the

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References

1994 births 21st-century Brazilian artists 21st-century Brazilian women artists Autistic artists Brazilian people with disabilities Living people Artists from Belo Horizonte Autism in Brazil {{Brazil-artist-stub