From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Eiffel Tower: Black-and-white photographs of famous landmarks under construction are transformed into stunning COLOUR images
- A series of 130 images from the past have been rendered in colour for a new book called The Paper Time Machine
- The photos cover some of the world's most famous landmarks during the construction or renovation process
- The breath-taking photography project is a collaboration between Retronaut website and Dynamichrome
A series of digitally altered photographs show some of the world's most iconic landmarks as they undergo construction or renovation around the world - in colour.
The images, which sit side by side with the original monochrome photos, form part of a new book of 130 pictures called The Paper Time Machine, which is a collaboration between the Retronaut website founder Wolfgang Wild and Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome.
Each image has been restored and rendered in colour by Jordan Lloyd after being researched and colour checked for historical authenticity, with the aim of making the viewer feel like they are looking at a modern photograph.
Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London
Jordan Lloyd revealed to MailOnline Travel that the images have a special effect on people when they see them in colour for the first time, saying: 'All the photographs are astonishing in their own right, and we view many of these landmarks like the Statue of Liberty or Tower Bridge as permanent fixtures, so it’s a strange thing to think about what they were like during their construction and the hands that crafted them.
'It’s the details that leap out, I think - things like the idea of advertising in the 1840s and in full colour fly-posted to the hoardings of Trafalgar Square, or the Eiffel Tower being in a particularly vibrant shade of red when it was being constructed.
'These details bridge the gap between decades to something that everyone can suddenly relate to -seeing something from that long ago in colour helps us understand it a little better because colour plays a major part in how we interact with the world.'
Wolfgang Wild revealed that he started researching old pictures and publishing them on his website because it felt like he was time travelling, saying: 'I found some old photographs had a curious effect on me.
While most old pictures look like "the past", some look like "now" - but a different version of "now". When I saw such pictures, I felt as though the barrier between past and present had been dissolved - the closest experience I had had to time-travel.'
Wild and Lloyd have launched a crowdfunding campaign for the book on the publishing platform Unbound and hope to raise enough support for it to be published this autumn.
Read on to see some of the images from the book...
Top attraction: The Eiffel Tower was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower in 1889
Californian icon: A picture of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction in San Francisco in 1934
Officials sit in one of the pipes of the Hoover Dam, Arizona in 1935, before it was constructed
This picture was taken in 1942, during the restoration of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, as a soldier tries to grab a goldfish from the pond
Two men inspect work on the face of Washington, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota, on May 31, 1932
A view of a trilithon being re-erected during renovations at Stone Henge in 1919 and 1920
Scaffolding surrounding the bell-tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris in the 1880s
Nelson's Column under construction in Trafalgar Square, central London, in 1844
French workers build the Statue of Liberty at a workshop in Paris in 1882, with an arm visible in the background
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