Colour In Darkness: Images from the First World War
Colour In Darkness: Images from the First World War
In the early 1920s, an exhibition of war photographs toured Australia, attracting crowds and enthusiastic reviews. Most of the photographs were taken by Australian personnel who served at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. The photographs were enlarged and hand-coloured by ‘digger artists’ at Colarts Studios from smaller snapshots. In most cases, we don’t know the names of the photographers, nor the returned servicemen who coloured the images, but we do know that the exhibition was a tremendous success.
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Colour In Darkness: Images from the First World War
In the early 1920s, an exhibition of war photographs toured Australia, attracting crowds and enthusiastic reviews. Most of the photographs were taken by Australian personnel who served at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. The photographs were enlarged and hand-coloured by ‘digger artists’ at Colarts Studios from smaller snapshots. In most cases, we don’t know the names of the photographers, nor the returned servicemen who coloured the images, but we do know that the exhibition was a tremendous success.
Some 90 years after the original exhibition toured the country, these prints — which came to the Library in the 1960s — are displayed together in Colour in Darkness.
Photographer unknown.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne
Photographer unknown.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne.
Photographer: Walter Ernest Dexter
This photograph is the third panel of a tryptich.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne
Photographer unknown.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne.
Photographer unknown.
Neither the pilot nor the observer of this plane was injured. In fact, the house was the greatest sufferer, as only the under-carriage of the plane was damaged.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne
Photographer unknown.
The pictorial panorama of the Great War: embracing Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, France, Belgium, Germany and the Navy -- from an exhibition of war photographs in natural colour / produced by Colarts Studios, Melbourne
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