Yeah, that's why I find this one a little creepy:
Posted on 03/03/2005 2:25:44 PM PST by Jinjelsnaps
Found this on another message board, and thought my fellow Freepers would enjoy the history.
From the site: "The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war."
http://www.bigdandbubba.com/nicknacks/color_photo_was_invented_in.htm
Yeh.
I ran across a series of early photos from the U of Penn (IIRC), circa early/mid 1800s. They were of a naked male in various poses.
Develop a technology and pr0n will find a use. lol. (Of course, pr0n drove the development of computer monitors from EGA to VGA to SVGA and beyond.)
Facinating!
Awesome. Thanks for the ping. (French soldiers looked like pansies even back then.)
If these were French why wasn't the main color yellow?
Good catch....now get back to work!
Wow, incredible photos. Does anyone know what the kids in one of the phots have? The colored pins...bowling pins maybe?
Those are some of the neatest pictures I've ever seen.
ME: "You mean you had ________ when you were little?" (e.g. electric appliances, indoor plumbing, etc.)MOM: "Yup, and we also had fire and the wheel."
Wow. That's amazing! Thanks for the post. :-)
Suprisingly color photos were actually first produced in 1861, however given the clarity and the coloring of the photos posted, I'm somewhat skeptical that they are real (but I could certainly be wrong).
from-
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/Encyclopedia/P/Ph/Photography.htm
"Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. Initial experiments in color could not fix the photograph and prevent the color from fading. The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell Quick Summary (Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)).
The first color film did not reach the market until 1907 and was based on dyed dots of potato starch. The first modern color film, Kodachrome Quick Summary:
Quick Summary not found for this subjectKodachrome, was introduced in 1935 based on three colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for Agfacolor in 1936.
One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter Quick This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom."
The second photo appears to show a french soldier being fitted for his white flag.
WOW!! Thank you.
Fantastic quality!
Thank you!
Gripping stuff - thanks for posting.
There's an even larger collection here:
http://www.greatwar.nl/
Click on the left under "The First Real Color Pictures of World War I"
Caution. Some of the other galleries have very disturbing photos of dead and mutilated soldiers particularly a raped Russian female soldier. WWI was more brutal than most people realize.
BTTT
I made that statement as a joke... But I will go so far as to say that the war was won by not only the French, but a whole host of other nations as well. The measure of the contribution made by the French to the final outcome is certainly not any more outstanding than the contributions made by those that crossed the Channel or the Atlantic.
Je ne comprends pas pourquoi certains sont donnés le crédit excessif pour un travail exécuté par tous.-- Raven6
PING
was that guy taking a leak?
Beautiful pictures. Pastoral. Even the devastation.
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