Hunting Trying to hide in the environment has always been part of a hunter’s survival playbook. If you hope to get close to the animals you pursue, you must learn how to disappear into the landscape. But the idea of concealment stretches far beyond modern hunting, it’s rooted in military innovation. The story of camouflage, as we know it today, began during World War I. The arrival of aerial photographs suddenly exposed troops and their weapons from above, making concealment essential. Victory often went to those who could avoid detection. In 1914, French artist Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola pioneered the first military camouflage, drawing on his artistic skills to create visual deception. The very word “camouflage” comes from the French verb meaning “to make up for the stage,” and those who practiced it, many of them artists, were known as camoufleurs.
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