Britain at war – in colour
May 28, 2021
2 minutes
OUR IMPRESSION of the Second World War is often of a conflict fought in black and white. The main reason was that colour photography and reproduction was expensive and difficult, while the exposure times required for colour images made it difficult, journalistically, to capture an event as it was happening.
Colour photography was, however, useful for circulating what was, in effect, propaganda. The
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