Autochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913
Autochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913
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Its odd to think this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks. Color really does make it feel like a reenactment.
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this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks
Unless OP typo'd the year in the title and this wasn't actually from 1913, Gatling guns had existed for almost half a century and the British Mark I tank was only 3 years away.
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Yeah, machine guns existed, but Europeans had pretty much only pointed them at Africans until one year after this picture was taken.
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Should be 1813, it's Napoléon's army
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To be fair, Europe had spent most of the time the Gatling and Maxim had existed for fighting under the rules of engagement, as the great British Captain Blackadder once noted, that the "prerequisite of a... campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns."
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That's really high quality for literal potato photography.
(Context: The autochrome used starch particles from potatoes - some dyed red, others green, others blue - over the photosensitive layer on a glass photography plate as a color mask that was used both for filtering incoming light as the photo was taken, and for producing appropriate colors when viewing. The images needed to be shown backlit at high intensity, and neither color reproduction nor sharpness was very good. Starch was cheaper than three times as much photosensitive material, though.)
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What building is in the back right?
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If men's formal wear looked like this I'd get dressed up more often
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Be the trendsetter you want to see in the world o7
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Yeah but where am I gonna find a chest plate in my size?
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I don’t believe it. Those are totally modern trees.
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They look like historical reenactors
Seems like today's reenactors are doing a good job then :D
If they're not, they were in for a nasty surprise the first time they charged into a position with machine guns.