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

Name: Dawn of the Color Photograph Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet
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ISBN: 9780691139074

ISBN-10: 0691139075

ISBN-13: 9780691139074

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Okuefuna

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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 to more than fifty countries around the world, amassing more than 72,000 images. Until recently his collection was all but forgotten. Now, a century after he began his "Archives of the Planet" project, this book--richly…

Book details

List price: $49.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.806
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction



Western Europe



The Americas



The Balkans



The First World War



The Far East



Indochina



The Middle East



Africa



Portraits



The Autochrome Process



Albert Kahn: The Man and His Legacy


Index of Countries


Additional Captions


Sources and Further Reading


Acknowledgments