Comments on: 20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War

By: tryecrot

tryecrot — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:39:44 +0000

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By: Jack-ass

Jack-ass — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:31:21 +0000

These pictures look pretty fake because of the coloring and the positioning.

Number 6 is a painting.

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By: Avi

Avi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:32:40 +0000

#14′s title is misprinted. It is “Prisoners of War”, no apostrophe.

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:43:37 +0000

Great pictures! Least we forget…

Post # 55: I had the same thought, t. Number 4 does look more like a painting to me, too.

And the pants, shirts and caps in # 18 have a much more modern appearance than those in all the other photos, which lead me to believe that it’s from WWII or at least a lot later than the First World War.

By: туристическа агенция

туристическа агенция — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:31:56 +0000

Australian soldier gathers anemones. Colour photography from world war I.

By: Samuel Wright

Samuel Wright — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:27:51 +0000

Great pictures…

My Great-Grandfather fought in WWI… one of the stories that I heard relayed to me by my Grand Mother was that the soldiers would sing back and forth to each other on some nights.

During the Christmas that he was in the trenches, they exchanged food, drinks and some pieces of “War Art” with the “enemy”. It seems funny when you think about it. War was just something that they were doing, it was not who they were. War today does not do this… it is all or nothing now.

After the war, mt Great-Grandfather actually ended up staying in touch with a couple of the german soldiers he met that Christmas and they remained good friends until my G-G-Father died of liver disease in 1949. I will have to post his picture online in a day or so then put the link up here.

Thanks for the pictures!

Samuel Wright
http://www.samuraimarineblog.com

By: segue

segue — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:04:03 +0000

Photo #2 is Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud of North-African soldiers, Oise, France, 1917.

By: къмпинг

къмпинг — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:04:29 +0000

Australian soldier gathers anemones. Colour photography from world war I.

By: segue

segue — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:50:12 +0000

211. Chup:…while some do look hand coloured…
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Only barely.
I hand color a lot of my photographs. I’ve been doing so for (oh, God!) 30 something years, and I’ve tried a lot of different methods. The one I use most often, most successfully, gives me the opportunity to either make the photo look like a color photo, using true true to life colors (which would make no sense at all since I can just take them that way in the beginning)or choose any colors I want, make the sky any color I want, make anything anyway I choose.
Hand-colored photos, in the early days, had a brightness to them, a perfection of color that simply didn’t exist in nature. They were easy to spot because they were too perfect. The colorist would clean people up, tidy their faces and hands.
Look at these men, they’re dirty. They’re filthy! These are beautiful, real color photographs.
You’re right about Frank Hurley as one of the early color photographers. But there were other methods and other photographers. They don’t look like Paget plates to me, but we’re both looking at such degenerated photo’s it would be impossible to say without a signature or a document.
Who cares anyway? They are beautiful. They are here. That, after-all, is what matters.