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05-25-2012, 06:08 AM
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WW1 in Colour Photography (no Gore)
Scrolling through this forum, I suddenly remembered that I had bookmarked a link to a site with lots of WW1 colour images. Not handcoloured or electronically remastered, but real colourphotographs made with the Lumiere autochromeprocess patented 1903. The process worked much the same way as a modern digital sensor with a colourfilter array in front of the emulsion. Reverse developed and projected through the same colourfilter you had a colour transparency. The exposuretime was of course very long - the colourfilter absorbed a lot of light - and only static motives could be made. The collection from WW1 comes from the french army, and there is no dead, but a lot of damage (and everyday frontlife) in it. I post a couple of examples to give you an idea of what to expect, and a link to the site where you can find a lot more (in english and with comments and info on most of the images) + a link to Wikipedia on the autochrome process, if you are interested in that. http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re  ·  · |
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05-25-2012, 10:52 AM
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Re: WW1 in Colour Photography (no Gore)
 One would not know from this photo that it was taken during the war, would one?  Notice the crude barricades, one on the front left and one behind the soldier. http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.co...a000544_p1.jpg  Whoever thinks they can rebuild this must be quite some carpenter.  My gues is that these are camoflaged hangars, given their proximty to a flat, open field.    "This picture likely depicts a town entrance because of the houses in the background, and the entrance looks like a drawbrige that can be lifted to allow boats to pass." Thanks to Guillaume in Pantin, France for passing this on to me. Wonder how many decades or centuries it had been there?             |
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05-26-2012, 05:35 PM
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Re: WW1 in Colour Photography (no Gore)
AMAZING thread!!! I'm stunned at how fresh those images look, makes it all look so recent. Thanks so much  |
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05-27-2012, 06:08 PM
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Re: WW1 in Colour Photography (no Gore)
You are right - they are amazing. Time also to thank icheerthebull for posting many more of them, and as far as I remember there are yet a lot to see on the site. |
