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Title: WWI in colour
Post by: Glas on January 17, 2005, 04:24:15 PM

Dunno if you have seen this;

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35524

Some examples:

(http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0084/sap01_cvl00085_p.jpg)

(http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0084/sap01_ca000333_p.jpg)

(http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0085/sap01_ca000650_p.jpg)

Title: Re: WWI in colour
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 17, 2005, 04:26:39 PM

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Originally posted by Glas
Dunno if you have seen this;

 

Very cool. didnt think they even had color back then

Title: Re: Re: WWI in colour
Post by: Glas on January 17, 2005, 04:28:27 PM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Very cool. didnt think they even had color back then

From what someone else told me;

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they are true color, not colored B&W photos. it seems they were processed using a so called paget plate system

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: Holden McGroin on January 17, 2005, 04:33:49 PM

An explanation I once heard about old photographs.

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Q. How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
A. Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

Q. But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
A. Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Q. But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
A. Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.

Q. So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
A. Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 17, 2005, 04:43:10 PM

These are even earlier, and more amazing, from the very early 1900s Czarist Russia.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/




(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_3002__00363_.jpg) (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_8066__01861_.jpg)
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_150x__00130_.jpg)
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6040.jpg)

These are real color photos, read about the intresting process the photographer developed here:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

Finally, a WW1 Austro-Hungarian POWs image from the same photographer.

(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_2067__00279_.jpg)

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: CyranoAH on January 17, 2005, 05:01:24 PM

:eek: :eek: :eek: Astonishing :eek: :eek: :eek:

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: straffo on January 18, 2005, 04:41:14 AM

As some where having trouble finding the pict on the french site :

from this page :
http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/index.html

Select Guerre 14-18 on the left menu.

Also you can see some here :
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=LOCA&VALUE_1=Somme&FIELD_5=AUTP&VALUE_5=lestrange
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_5=AUTP&VALUE_5=lestrange&FIELD_6=SERIE&VALUE_6=reims%20bombarde

 found some more here
http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/visites_guidees/autochromes.html
click on the right on one of those :
Aisne
Haut-Rhin
Marne
Nord
Oise
Paris
Somme

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 18, 2005, 04:46:45 AM

Thank you straffo.

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: Wolfala on January 18, 2005, 08:11:40 AM

That is really incredible - thank you.

I honestly have to say those are some of the most beautiful photos i've ever seen - PERIOD.

Title: WWI in colour
Post by: Makarov9 on January 18, 2005, 10:14:44 AM

The History Channel has some shows called 'WWI in Color'. It was colorized footage but something about being in color that made it so much more like it really happened and not very long ago. B&W always seems like ancient history in my mind.

Amazing photos.