Author Topic: Rare color WWI photos (Read 433 times)

Saurdaukar · « **on:** March 01, 2005, 08:26:34 PM »

Someone posted this link on another board I frequent. A good find, indeed.

Enjoy.

Clicky, clicky.

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The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war.

midnight Target · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2005, 09:07:00 PM »

leave it to the French.

Hawklore · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2005, 10:11:05 PM »

Really nice fakes..

Probally cause they were taken with a WWI era camera and colored in..

Gosh dangit, some of them look like real photos...

Gone darn confused now...

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2005, 10:14:23 PM »

Eh... how do you know they're "fakes?"

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2005, 10:29:20 PM »

Interesting, some are almost 3d.

nirvana · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2005, 10:49:18 PM »

The colouration is really weird, we've done stuff like that in photoshop at school, they could be fakes. Did they have coloured film back then?

VOR · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2005, 10:49:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawklore
Really nice fakes..

I think they're real. I didn't notice anyone in the pics geeky enough to be a reenactor.

Nash · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2005, 11:14:42 PM »

These could be fake. Anything is possible.

But man... the complexity of the photos... all those trees against the sky... branches against grass. Look at the redish blurred fence against the green trees in the 5th picture. How do ya pull that off without hand painting every line of the fence? These aren't 1950's Sears photos.

If someone did color these... he's probably one of those quiet types who snap and commit mass murder.

Nash · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2005, 11:22:07 PM »

Heh... I guess none of us actually clicked on the link. I just did, and I think it's pretty safe to say that they're real. Awesome pics too.

NUKE · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2005, 11:34:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Nash
Heh... I guess none of us actually clicked on the link. I just did, and I think it's pretty safe to say that they're real. Awesome pics too.

I love history and these pics are awesome. Click the link.......just amazing pics.

I'm the kind of guy who looks at the people in these pics and tries to imagine myslef with those people at that time.....and reference that with my "modern" life.

It's funny.....we are all going to die and I think about that, along with my own relevance on this earth when I see people in these kind of pics.

I can't explain it very well I guess....but I feel an attachment and deep thoughts regarding humanity and mortality when I see pics like these.

RightF00T · « **Reply #10 on:** March 01, 2005, 11:39:04 PM »

The world was in color back then??

greentail · « **Reply #11 on:** March 01, 2005, 11:39:46 PM »

Thanks for posting. A real treasure.

Gixer · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:38:40 AM »

Colour photography was experimented with by some famous french photographer back in 1905 or something.

There are a few websites devoted to photography of WW1 in colour and of course b&w

http://www.greatwar.nl/

~~...-Gixer~~

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:09:16 AM »

they are alot better than what my 2004 model cellphone camera makes even if they are around a 100 years older.

DieAz · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2005, 07:14:22 AM »

Nice Pics.
make you wonder though.
wonder what size the trees are now, that are in some of the pic.
wonder if anyone still alive in those pics.
wonder what world would look like, if atomic bomb was created and used during the great war.

I like seeing stuff like this, makes me do some thinking about things.

any one know where these pics were taken, and maybe where to find pics of what it looks like today?