Hi guys.

I haven't been modeling too much in the last year, but, in my other endeavors, I came across this gem of a site and thought IMMEDIATELY of Armorama.

WWI in Color (French)

Hope it serves you all well!
Still a plastic carver!
Cuhail

Gday Murphy
Long time no hear!
What a good find. We think of the relative rarity of WWII colour images, but for WWI, whoa...
Good stuff
Brad

Just one example...

That's what I thought. Totally! The rarity of seeing ANY World War One photos which such clarity and then add color on top of that and then group a whole BUNCH in one site, I couldn't NOT post a link here!
There are some sweet refs in the batch, for sure and I really hope they come in handy around Armorama.

Cuhail

By the looks of it they are probably hand coloured prints, not actual colour film photos. I may be wrong though - color film was introduced in 1907. So I wouldn't trust the accuracy of the colours precisely if you were looking for references.

Nice collection of photos though.

For an example of true colour vs hand painted:

Autochrome colour photo, 1915


Hand coloured photo, circa 1900

well, i'm having a tough time deciding if they were colorized or not actually. if they were black and white prints colored after the fact, the colorizer took far more care with them than is typical. I'm willing to believe they are legit color photos, given the limitations of the format at the time.

nice find.

that's very nice photos