Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet


  • ISBN13: 9780691139074
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In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. An internationalist and pacifist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome--the world's first portable, true-color photographic process--to create a global photographic archive that would promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. Over the next twenty years, he sent a group of photographers ... More >>

The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet

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