It was a dashing First World War, the soldiers photoshopped as best they could

A photo of the homeland is a sacred rite of any serviceman. The photo should be solemn and emphasize the importance of the soldier's mission. The beginning of this tradition was laid at the end of the XIX century. However, then there was no opportunity to instantly click a person in the most advantageous scenery. Therefore, it was necessary to use homemade models of airplanes, cars, tanks, shells as props.

Christopher Steiner, a professor of art history and anthropology at Connecticut College, once collected a large collection of similar photographs from the First World War and subsequent years up to the Second World War. Soldiers from France, the USA and Germany are happy to pose in photo studios or specially equipped places in amusement parks.

(20 photos in total)

Source: Cameralabs

1910-1912. "Flight from camp Neuhammer". Neuhammer, Germany.

1928. "Those who remained faithful to their mother can be seen flying here." Munster, Germany.

1915. Munster military Camp, Germany.

1912-1914. "Flight from Deberitz". Berlin, Germany.

1913. Neuhammer, Germany.

1917. An American soldier with a revolver pointed at German infantrymen. USA.

onethousandninehundredfifteen "Flight from Elsenborn to Paris". Military training ground, Elsenborn, Germany.

1917. "Happy New Year 1918". Unknown German studio.

1914. Military training ground, Neuhammer am Kweis.

1916. "Flight from Munster". Munster, Germany.

1938. "Survey flight — Fasberg—Munster—Hamburg Air Base, 1938". Munster, Germany.

The 1930s. German soldiers on an artificial Easter egg. Germany.

The 1930s. Amusement Park, Coney Island, New York.

1928. French military pilots in a painted biplane. Photo studio in Paris, France.

The 1930s. "Flight from Altengrabova". Military camp Dernitz, Germany.

1930. German soldiers on a wooden stork. Munster, Germany.

The 1930s and 1940s. Photo montage: Nazi officers on a plane. Germany.

The 1920s. A soldier poses with a plywood horse, Republic of Estonia.

The 1940s. American soldiers riding a wooden donkey.

1944-1945 . French soldiers in a photo studio. Paris, France.