[Commlist] Colourised Histories, Visual Studies 40 (1) 2025 published

A special issue of */Visual Studies/ on */*Colourised Histories: reading 
digital/analogue photography and film archives now* /is available 
online. The journal issue focuses on the role of digitisation and 
colourisation in the interpretation, circulation and reception of 
photographic and film archives, which play an integral part in shaping 
understandings of the past. The authors examine colourisation, AI, 
hand-crafted colourisations, racial and gender bias, museum commissions, 
memory, ethics and more.

The table contents and links are listed below.

*/Colourised Histories, reading digital/ analogue photography and film 
archive now/, special issue of /Visual Studies/  Vol.40 issue 1. 
February 2025. *Edited by Liz Watkins and Dominic Williams.

*Introduction:/ Colourised Histories, reading digital/ analogue 
photography and film archive now/*/. /Liz Watkins (University of Leeds) 
and Dominic Williams (Northumbria University) 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2443351 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2443351>

*Colour troubles: colourisation and photography in Ireland*. Emily 
Mark-Fitzgerald (University College Dublin). 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2444672 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2444672>

*In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film.* Libby 
Saxton (Queen Mary University London). 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2437442 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2437442>

*Wars in colour: critical perspectives on digital colourisation in 
historical documents.* Kamilla Simor (University of Pécs, Hungary). 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2433022 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2433022>

*Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation.* Martyn 
Jolly (Australian National University School of Art and Design). 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2431553 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2431553>

*Past Caring: archive, affect, and whiteness in digital 
colourisation.* Christina Riggs 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2415904 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2415904>

*On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black 
box.* Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Old Dominion University). 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2433020 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2433020>

*The Faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the 
archive.* Liz Watkins (University of Leeds) and Dominic Williams 
(Northumbria University). https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2438883 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2438883>

*Kodachrome and the Fantasy of Colourisation or what time is 
there?* André Habib (Université de Montréal) 
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2453172 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2453172>

*/Colourised Histories, reading digital/ analogue photography and film 
archive now/, special issue of /Visual Studies/  Vol.40 issue 1. 
February 2025. *https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/40/1 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/40/1>


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