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04-30-2017, 06:11 PM
Rarely seen photos record World War II in brilliant, immersive color
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December 1942
An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ‘spotter’ at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site.
Image: Imperial War Museums (tr 453)
Though color photography was invented decades before World War II, it was still a rather niche process, more complicated and expensive than black-and-white photography.
The scarcity of color film was compounded by the hazards of shipping in wartime and the difficulties of reproduction and printing.
Nevertheless, thousands of color images were created during the global conflict. 3,000 of those were assembled by the British Ministry of Information and eventually ended up in the collections of the Imperial War Museums (http://www.iwm.org.uk/), which **w hold over 11 million photos of conflict from the first World War to the present day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/30/second-world-war-in-color/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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December 1942
An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ‘spotter’ at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site.
Image: Imperial War Museums (tr 453)
Though color photography was invented decades before World War II, it was still a rather niche process, more complicated and expensive than black-and-white photography.
The scarcity of color film was compounded by the hazards of shipping in wartime and the difficulties of reproduction and printing.
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