As freaky as they are fascinating. I came across a group of these a few weeks ago. Iconic photos we all know well in their black and white form that have been “colorized”. Makes you a little queasy, doesn’t it? Kind of like the first time you saw those old classic movies colorized by Ted Turner back in the 1980s.
Shown here (two ways) is the classic black and white photo taken in 1968 by Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams during the Vietnam War. It highlighted the senseless violence of this war literally “point blank” as South Vietnam’s chief of police Nguyen Ngoc Loan prepares to shoot a Viet Cong solider in the head.
You can see more of these, including one as far back as Abe Lincoln, who ironically met a similar fate, here.
