[September 01, 2014] Color photography was invented in the 19th Century, well prior to World War 1. Photography was still awkward in many ways. An action shot, as we know them, were unknown during the war and explains why there are so few that show combat. Color photos from that era were “colored” using a variety of techniques.1 Below are a dozen of these showing World War I in color.
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Wikipedia gives a good summary of the development of color photography beginning in the mid-1800s.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
