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"Alfred Kühlewindt, who took this photograph, was allowed to enter the battlefield as a war photographer in the fall of 1914. Many photographs of the German front line were staged. The new manner of waging war with long-range artillery, not to mention the no-man’s-land between opposing trench lines, made photographing battle scenes very difficult. As a result, photographs of still scenes (where exposure times were not an issue) circulated in far higher numbers than shots of active combat. " germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2125

artolog: Thanks for providing us with more information about the photographer. We'll include a bit of it next time we update.

I found this postcard with a color version of the same scene, (I suppose handcolored afterwards) but the cutting out is not the same. The postcard is bigger, on all sides but especially on the left side. Does this mean that your glass negative is not the original? Can you explain this.

The Bain negative is from a copy of a postcard version of the photo, which is cropped differently than the postcard you found.

LOC, you have spelled Kühlewindt's name wrong in the descriptive notes.

the aircraft looks like a Farman HF20

This would be Ludwig III of Bavaria. I'm having trouble identifying "Excellencz von Strantz."

I"m going to go with the guy on the right as Gen. Hermann von Strantz, then a German military commander on the Western Front. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Strantz Also, it seems the German generals were referred to as "Your Excellency", even by the Kaiser: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E3D71539E333A...

Thanks to both of you. We'll fill in the names the next time we update the record.

great photo of years ago amen.

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