Not sure of the original source, but it certainly appears to be a World War I photo of an entire town wearing gas masks. Here's a larger copy of the photo:
Yeah, it does look a bit suspect. The field of focus is pretty odd, it seems to run really deep and wide, and fade pretty arbitrarily (look at the flag all the way on the right).
Look at the full-size print I linked to - nothing about it looks fake to me at all.
To organize period props like this would require a huge Hollywood style budget. Why? You guys are crazy with the conspiracy theories sometimes.
I did cursory research to test my observation abilities and believe this picture to be taken during WWI of Russians based on gas mask style, uniform, and the flag (possibly) being a double eagle. **This is only an educated guess. ** Peace T.N.
To organize period props like this would require a huge Hollywood style budget. Why? You guys are crazy with the conspiracy theories sometimes.
I did cursory research to test my observation abilities and believe this picture to be taken during WWI of Russians based on gas mask style, uniform, and the flag (possibly) being a double eagle. **This is only an educated guess. ** Peace T.N.
I'm just saying it looks like it could be doctored. Good photoshop skills could create something similar to this. I really have no interest in 'conspiracy theories', I'm simply commenting on the aethetic qualities of the image.
Look at the full-size print I linked to - nothing about it looks fake to me at all.
To organize period props like this would require a huge Hollywood style budget. Why? You guys are crazy with the conspiracy theories sometimes.
I guess you have no idea what the definition of a "conspiracy theory" is...I agree that it looks too good to be some random wartime pic...looks like a movie poster or something.
(I'm not saying it's a "fake" picture or photoshopped, it just looks like a shot from an obscure foreign movie rather than "real life")
I don't know the exact source either, but it looks like some kind of youth organization on a training day. I can only see a couple of adults and the maxim gun in the left bottom corner seems to be a toy model or wood replica.
The dude in the middle center has a cap with a star on it, which is a hint for Russia. Gas masks were invented in WW 1 and the picture seems to be taken during that time. As far as I know, the gas fights took place on the western front though.
Yeah, it does look a bit suspect. The field of focus is pretty odd, it seems to run really deep and wide, and fade pretty arbitrarily (look at the flag all the way on the right).
There's nothing about this that looks out of the ability for any cameraperson in the 1930s to take.
Yeah, it does look a bit suspect. The field of focus is pretty odd, it seems to run really deep and wide, and fade pretty arbitrarily (look at the flag all the way on the right).
There's nothing about this that looks out of the ability for any cameraperson in the 1930s to take.
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appears to be a World War I photo of an entire town
wearing gas masks. Here's a larger copy of the photo:
http://f.hatena.ne.jp/images/fotolife/V/VIDEO/20070127/20070127201859.jpg
Yeah, it does look a bit suspect. The field of focus is pretty odd, it seems to run really deep and wide, and fade pretty arbitrarily (look at the flag all the way on the right).
Look at the full-size print I linked to -
nothing about it looks fake to me at all.
To organize period props like this would require a huge Hollywood style budget. Why? You guys are crazy with the conspiracy theories sometimes.
I did cursory research to test my observation abilities and believe this picture to be taken during WWI of Russians based on gas mask style, uniform, and the flag (possibly) being a double eagle. **This is only an educated guess. **
Peace
T.N.
I'm just saying it looks like it could be doctored. Good photoshop skills could create something similar to this. I really have no interest in 'conspiracy theories', I'm simply commenting on the aethetic qualities of the image.
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I guess you have no idea what the definition of a "conspiracy theory" is...I agree that it looks too good to be some random wartime pic...looks like a movie poster or something.
(I'm not saying it's a "fake" picture or photoshopped, it just looks like a shot from an obscure foreign movie rather than "real life")
knowledge hath been droppethed.
The dude in the middle center has a cap with a star on it, which is a hint for Russia. Gas masks were invented in WW 1 and the picture seems to be taken during that time. As far as I know, the gas fights took place on the western front though.
as for Viktor Bulla, just one year after this "during the Great Purge
he was arrested and accused of being a German Spy and shot." (wiki entry)
The Great Purge was some seriously fucked-up shit.
There's nothing about this that looks out of the ability for any cameraperson in the 1930s to take.
thanks everyone! much appreciated, soulstrutters can't go wrong! well, erm, almost...
I used to have this as my desktop image,
it's too big to post here..
and this was taken in 1908.