Photo book Ghent in color

Gent in color 1 is sold out online, but still available at

• Sydney Newspaper Shop, Zwijnaardsesteenweg 325, 9000 Ghent

 Ghent in color 2 is available via this link.

Ghent in Color returns to the era when black-and-white photography captured the city's stories. Times when color existed only in the eyes of Ghent residents in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, these unique archive images have been colorized for the first time and collected in this book. They offer a journey back in time that defies imagination. The 1913 World's Fair, Ghent-South train station, more than 35 cinemas, all sorts of activity in markets and squares, newspaper and almond vendors… Images lurking in melancholy alternate with hallucinatory scenes of an occupied city. Ghent also illuminates that gray side of the city in color . You see soldiers and tanks thundering across the same Korenmarkt where a month later a circus parades elephants, or workers forming a revolt in a rough industrial city full of cramped quarters.

The combination of the authentic black-and-white photos, the colorized version, and a photo of modern-day Ghent taken at the same location makes history tangible and sometimes frighteningly close (or not).

These photographs, from private and public archives, were collected by Korneel Bostyn. All images were digitally remastered and colorized. During this process, particular attention was paid to achieving historical accuracy in terms of color.

Hardcover book
212 pages
Closed size: 21 x 29 cm
Open size: 42 x 29 cm

Also available in a limited edition with a linen-textured cover and gold foil. Numbered inside, 100 copies.