Rare and Amazing WWI Colour Photographs

[Googer]

Rare and Amazing WWI (World War 1) Photographs

Enjoy.


See My other thread: WWII in Colour.

 

[Tim]

I didn't see 1 pointy helmet on the germans. I'm calling shens!

 

[Soundmanred]

From the title, I thought this was an eBay ad.

 

[geno]

Let me know when you get some color photographs

The pictures are amazing though. In your mind, you'd assume nearly 100 year old pictures to be B&W...it's strange seeing stuff from this era in color.

 

[rasczak]

those photos were really impressive.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?

 

[SunnyD]

Those aren't Germans... those are Mexicans!

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Haha, they're all midgets!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

 

[Homerboy]

Too bad they all had to be posed.
Regardless simply amazing stuff.
WWI was just a hellish war. Its a shame it doesn't get the press (and respect) that it deserves.

Edit: "About 350,000 soliders on both sides died at Verdun over the course of that year." ... jeebus 1000 a day for a year. Screw that. Nothing but fodder and meat through a grinder.

 

[Paladin3]

Great photos. B&W images often have that other-worldly element about them. It can be nice, but it sometimes brings it home more to see it in color, which is important when we talk about war.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

You are full of SHT.

1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

 

[aircooled]

Ted Turner must have done that.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
Too bad they all had to be posed.
Regardless simply amazing stuff.
WWI was just a hellish war. Its a shame it doesn't get the press (and respect) that it deserves.

Edit: "About 350,000 soliders on both sides died at Verdun over the course of that year." ... jeebus 1000 a day for a year. Screw that. Nothing but fodder and meat through a grinder.

Correct, color stock at the time of WWI did not have enough light sensitivity to allow for fast shutter speeds. So exposures were often long and required subjects to remain steady for a period of time. Otherwise, the image would be blur or some subjects would not appear at all.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

You are full of SHT.

I would recommend turning your sarcasm meter to the ON position.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
I didn't see 1 pointy helmet on the germans. I'm calling shens!

These pictures are from late in the war and by that time the germans were wearing different uniforms than their comrades from the first half of the war.

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/german.htm
http://www.diggerhistory.info/...s-uniforms/german2.htm

 

[amish]

sarcasm meter broken, googer?

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

You are full of SHT.

1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

LOL
Your dum!

 

[videogames101]

Excellent pictures!

 

[BassBomb]

This is the province of combat...
... and these are the faces of war.

Nice pictures! Remind me of COD

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

You are full of SHT.

1. The wizzard of OZ was released in 1938 and is not the fist colour film. Being released in '38 also means that production took a few years, so obviously the film was around before then.
2. Google: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - He was a Russian Color Photograher at the turn of the last century.
3. The first color photograph ever taken was shot in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell

See his collection in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Read about the Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

This Color Photograh is from 1911, the same time as WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...rokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

Who said anything about photography. I was talking about the world in general...:laugh:

 

[Soundmanred]

Holy shit Googer, GET NU BATTRYS FOR UR SCARCASM DITICITOR .
Edit: Also, remove stick from behind.

 

[dotcom173]

those were nice pics! Was it a Rebel XTi or Nikon D70?

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Shens, color wasn't invented until the 1950s. The world was black & white prior to that.

Calvin's dad said it. I'll believe it!

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Those aren't Germans... those are Mexicans!

Mexicans weren't invented untill the 1960's when the US Gov was doing Genetic Experiments on Chi...p..z....