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Big Orange wrote:Wow, those colour photos from the period feel much more contemporary and immediate. I like that M3 Lee, welder girl, and that vast Flying Fortress(?) assembly line.

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:The US came late to the tank party. In the late 30's when the Germans were testing new alloys for hard wearing tank tracks, the US were trying to find new alloys for hard wearing horse shoes. When the Polish cavalry were decimated by Panzers during a charge, an American General put it down to poor training. No doubt he thought his horse mounted cavalry would have easily stabbed through the tank armour with their lances. They never fully caught up, and throughout the war the Germans always had the best tanks.

ebs2323 wrote:I must admit the color photos make a huge differnce in the impact.

Also if i recal from... somewhere, the polish did not use lances, but Ant-tanke rifles. The horses were used to get around faster.

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:When I was studying photojournalism we checked out some of the photographers and photos that make up the collection, some real iconic stuff in there. It's also odd seeing such high-quality colour shots of an era we normal only associate with monochrome photo and film. It makes it that much more real and touching.

Phantasee wrote:I posted a thread here a while back with some of the earliest colour photos ever recorded, although the technique used to produce them isn't the same as modern (or 1930s) colour film. It was quite startling to see a man selling produce, when you realize those fruits and things were over a hundred years old. There is a picture of some shah from IIRC Iran or someplace around there, decked out in all his finery. It's just not the same as B&W.

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome process, the world's first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.

Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of twentieth-century globalisation. They documented in true colour the collapse of both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires; the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland, just a few years before they were demolished; and the soldiers of the First World War — in the trenches, and as they cooked their meals and laundered their uniforms behind the lines. They took the earliest-known colour photographs in countries as far apart as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States.

At the start of 1929 Kahn was still one of the richest men in Europe. Later that year the Wall Street Crash reduced his financial empire to rubble and in 1931 he was forced to bring his project to an end. Kahn died in 1940. His legacy, still kept at the Musée Albert-Kahn in the grounds of his estate near Paris, is now considered to be the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.

hongi wrote:Thank you Simplicius, the photos on that website are stunning. Things a century ago look eerily similar to now.

Can someone tell me what this is?