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Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 12:12:35 PM   
Haplo_Patryn

 

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Status: offline 		Hell on Earth: The never before seen colour photographs of the bloody battle of Passchendaele


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467811&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770


The photographs are amazing.







Look their faces...






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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 12:50:18 PM   
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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 1:29:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh my they look so surreal!

Black and white photos just can not portray the horror that this the battle caused!

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 1:33:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		I imagine that the faces at Somme, Verdun, Ypres, etc. all looked like that.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 4:33:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		jamesm, I absolutely agree, those pictures really capture the horror of the situation thsese men found themselves in. I cannot imagine the misery they must have felt.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 4:34:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Powerful images. Thanks for sharing them.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 4:47:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		captskillet, I imagine my face has looked like that, these last few days, while waiting for release.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 7:48:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		related question, I have about 85 unpublished steroscopic glass slides of WW1. Is there a practical way to get the pictures onto a different medium. I checked with my local photo shops but they either cant do it or want 15$ per picture.
They were collected by Dr Charles Mayo, then Brig General. They are mostly trench photos like these, but include a tank, aircraft in flight, arty barrage, local dignataries, ect.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/18/2007 8:44:59 PM   
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Corey

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/19/2007 2:15:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		It is amazing the depth color brings to those photos. You see the b&w photos and it puts distance between the viewer and the event. Color removes that comfort barrier.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/19/2007 9:44:51 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Haplo_Patryn
Hell on Earth: The never before seen colour photographs of the bloody battle of Passchendaele

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467811&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770

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The photographs are amazing.

Absolutely riveting photos, but a quick, small clarification: I've seen some of them here and there on the 'net, also IIRC a few at the British Imperial War Museum. Also in the U.S.'s PBS sereis, The Great War. In Black & White, though!

From the newspaper article Haplo_Patryn cited:
quote:

"... these astonishing photographs, lovingly hand-touched in colour to bring to life ..."

In other words, they've been "colorized" ... quite well. Still, the B&W originals retain a lot of textural details that often get obscured in the tweaked versions.

Great find in any case !

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/19/2007 2:08:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, believe it or not, the first photograph is a fake!

The real photograh



And this is the fake one




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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/19/2007 2:35:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice catch, do you know who faked it? Thinking about it you are hardly likely to position an unprotected machine gun nest out in the open next to a big shell hole and if the machine gun position was there before the explosion - goodbye gunners!

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/19/2007 8:16:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nor are you likely to stand up w/ bulky camera gear during combat and take a picture of it.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 5:31:27 AM   
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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Nor are you likely to stand up w/ bulky camera gear during combat and take a picture of it.


At least not more than once.


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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 7:50:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Donate the photos to the Imperial War Museum.  Tell them that in return you want digital copies of the pictures.

I am sure they will be happy to comply

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 8:20:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am very skeptical of the color in these pictures. It is monochrome in sections of the picture, where color would be rendered if made with the technology of the time.

For a description of contemporary photographic color methods go here:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Also see: Autochrome process on Wikipedia etc.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 9:49:02 AM   
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Thinking about it you are hardly likely to position an unprotected machine gun nest out in the open next to a big shell hole and if the machine gun position was there before the explosion - goodbye gunners!


It was a 1916 German tactic to deploy machineguns into shell holes in front of their trenches once the barrage lifted. I suspect that the men concerned would have chosen new shell holes though - with less water.


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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 1:32:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Into shell holes yes but surely not outside exposed.

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RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele - 7/20/2007 3:06:28 PM   
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Into shell holes yes but surely not outside exposed.


Agreed. And I would have thought (if the pic was real) that the photographer would have had a tough time too!



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