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

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.


[img]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/GunDM_468x361.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/FallenDM_821x800.jpg[/img]


Look their faces...


[img]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/soildersDM_1171x800.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/BunkerDM_800x619.jpg[/img]




JudgeDredd -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 12:50:18 PM)

WOW...powerful images...thx




JamesM -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 1:29:40 PM)

Oh my they look so surreal!

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




captskillet -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 1:33:16 PM)

I imagine that the faces at Somme, Verdun, Ypres, etc. all looked like that.




sol_invictus -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 4:33:00 PM)

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.




flintlock -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 4:34:49 PM)

Powerful images. Thanks for sharing them.




sol_invictus -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 4:47:27 PM)

captskillet, I imagine my face has looked like that, these last few days, while waiting for release.[sm=dizzy.gif]




Bladesss -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 7:48:50 PM)

related question, I have about 85 unpublished steroscopic glass slides of WW1.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.




coreymas -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/18/2007 8:44:59 PM)

Care to donate them instead? I know of a War Museum that would love to have them.

Corey




Bossy573 -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/19/2007 2:15:17 AM)

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.




Whytfyjrd -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/19/2007 9:44:51 AM)

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

--- snip ---

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 !




Haplo_Patryn -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/19/2007 2:08:16 PM)

Well, believe it or not, the first photograph is a fake!

The real photograh

[image]http://z.about.com/d/canadaonline/1/7/m/passchendaeletankmud.jpg[/image]

And this is the fake one

[image]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/GunDM_468x361.jpg[/image]


...... [:-]




Ironclad -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/19/2007 2:35:22 PM)

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!




anarchyintheuk -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/19/2007 8:16:35 PM)

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




AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 5:31:27 AM)


quote:

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.




Fred98 -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 7:50:58 AM)

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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benpark -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 8:20:33 AM)

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.




7th Somersets -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 9:49:02 AM)

quote:

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.





Ironclad -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 1:32:32 PM)

Into shell holes yes but surely not outside exposed.




7th Somersets -> RE: Hell on Earth: The battle of Passchendaele (7/20/2007 3:06:28 PM)

quote:

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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