Some of these are way more powerful in black and white. Color isn't always better.

Great job. However, with Abe's well-doccumented jaundice, shouldn't he had a good once (or twice) over with yellow.

Maybe someday they will colorize Schindler's List.

good works

good job i guess but how can we be sure lincoln wasn't black

Guevara should be red.

Wow! What a difference the color makes. Much as I love black and white photography, the color makes these photos (people especially) seem so much more life-like and knowable.

The Churchill reboot was spot on.

This reminds me that these were real people.

The famous times square kiss photo looks awesome.

The added color makes them look like stupid movie remakes

I wish the pictures weren't smack up against each other like that, it was hard to really see the difference. These are some tremendously well done pics, they deserve to stand out a bit more from the originals.

I can't help but think that colorizing these iconic photos takes away some of the intense edge they had, am I alone in this?

Having done a ton of recolouring work myself, I have to say, these are extremely well done. They look very natural, which is a lot more complicated to do than it might seem. Well done, kudos!

@Paol Hergert - thanks, i was wondering.

just wondering how the illustraters new what color is what? how can they tell?

The Abe Lincoln one is WOW.

Mark Twain or John Hurt?