Reconstruction of the portrait of Van Gogh

What image of Vincent Van Gogh is an ass in human memory if he lived in a later period in which color photography would have already spread? Lithuanian photographer and architect Tadao Cern attempted to answer this question, taking the impressionist self-portrait as a basis, and through photo retouching restored the artist's photo.



The quality of the received allowed, and Tadao did not fail to take the opportunity to joke that it was a real photo he had taken in the past, and he did not contact the mysterious person being photographed after receiving the pictures.
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Compare the result with the original self-portrait:



Work process ( mirror on Vimeo ):