For the first time in almost 100 years an extraordinary series of hand-coloured WW1 photographs will go on display. A collection of 151 photographs including some of the first aerial photographs, sweeping desert views of Light Horse troops on the march, scenes of devastation on the Western Front, and rare snapshots of occupied Germany.
The photographs, originally part of a popular exhibition that toured Australia in the early 1920s after the war ended, gave many grieving families and friends of soldiers a rare opportunity to view colour images of scenes and places they had only read about in letters and newspapers.
The photographs were enlarged and hand-coloured at Colarts Studios by ‘digger artists’ using a new airbrushing technology.
State Library of New South Wales
25 June to 21 August, 2016
Sydney
Frank Hurley, Column on the march approaching the Sea of Galilee, ca. 1918
Courtesy State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
