Spiegel Online produced a really interesting gallery entitled ‘The World of Trench Warfare in Color’ featuring the work of Hans Hildenbrand, a German photographer commissioned by the Kaiser to document the war.
One of the things that struck me was that they are among a very limited number of photographs I’ve ever seen of the ‘great war’. Much of our visual memory of the first world war is informed by the stark aesthetic of black and white, we’re almost conditioned to expect imagery of the period to be monochromatic. I’m glad I found these.
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