Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Trench Warfare in Colour

Hans Hildenbrand, one of nineteen photographers employed by the Kaiser to document the war, was the only German to take photos of the war in color. Hildenbrand, who first started experimenting with the "Autochrome" color technique in 1909, founded a society for color photography in 1911 his native Stuttgart.

His scenes are all posed, not for reasons of propaganda, but rather because the film he was working with wasn't sensitive enough to capture movement.

Beautiful photos via Uncertain Times

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:33 pm

    Very interesting photos. Thanks for the link

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  2. Glad you liked them. Some of them look almost pretty. Seems wrong somehow.

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