The photos were colored by Yossi Biran, an artist, and amateur historian.
Yossi Biran finds the pictures in the archives and then improves the resolution and then color the images and bring them back to life.
Yossi, born and raised in Israel to a German descent mother and a father of Greek descent. His mother was a non-Jewish resident of Berlin who decided to immigrate to Israel and convert.
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The last photo, titled Buying milk the old way: That’s not milk. He’s selling fuel (“NEFT”)
thanks for the comment! fixed.
It would be helpful if there were more captions so that one could identify the different locations.
Interesting pictures. Thank you
thanks for the comment, will try to add that though it was not always mentioned on the original photo.