Hand-colouring has been used to add colour since the invention of photography. Used primarily to add colour to black and white formal portraits, hand-colouring for this purpose went into a serious decline in the 1950's caused by the emergence of colour photography in the same year.
The art form survived, however, re-emerging in the 1960's. It soon became part of the mainstream advertising and fashion photography of the time when it was rediscovered by a new generation of photographers, primarily in the United States.
Hand colouring also became a way of restoring faded or damaged photos, caused by many things like water, sunlight, air and neglect, bringing the colours back to life.
This technique can also bring vibrancy to dull, bleak images that require a bit of colour to brighten them up.
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