WWI Color Pictures...

[Hauksbee 103]

Found these while looking for something else. Classical serendipity. The top pic. seems to be true color photography, though the primitive color technology required very long exposures. The bottom two look like color retouch.

Edited November 8, 2011 by Hauksbee

[Olham 164]

Here's a website with original colour photos from 1917 and 1918:

 

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

 

 

Edited November 8, 2011 by Olham

[RAF_Louvert 101]

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Wonderful old photos, and a great link, (I've been to that site many times over the years). Thanks for sharing, Hauksbee and Olham.

 

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[Davy TASB 0]

Here's a very rare and seldom seen, extremely authentic colour piccy from WW1.

 

 

 

:yes:

[Hasse Wind 46]

As far as I know, that Nupe shown in Hauksbee's post is an actual colour photo, not retouched.

 

Most old colour photographs are French, because the were the pioneers in that field. There was a famous Russian photographer, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, who took lots of colour photos from the final years of the Russian Empire. They are also extremely fascinating.

 

Here's one of his pics, showing Austro-Hungarian prisoners in some Russian camp in Karelia (quite close to Finland), the year is 1915:

 

Edited November 8, 2011 by Hasse Wind

[Olham 164]

An excellent photo!

[Flyby PC 23]

There's definitely something about colour....

 

 

Did anybody else read the bit about the French Poilus? I knew they were called Poilus, but never knew why.

 

 

 

"Poilus" (hairy) is the nickname to French WWI soldiers, since they could not afford the luxury of regular shaving. It is a term of affection, especially now.

[Hasse Wind 46]

An excellent photo!

 

I'd say it's hard to take a better one with a modern digital camera. And when you think about the relatively primitive cameras of the early 20th century, it's obvious the man was a master photographer.