The dawn of the color photograph : Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet / David Okuefuna.

"In 1909 the French baner and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. Art internationalist and pacifist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome - the world's first portable, true - color photograp...

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Main Author: Okuefuna, David
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Documentary photography > France.
Color photography > France.
Archives de la Planète.
Kahn, Albert, > 1860-1940 > Photograph collections.
Photograph collections > France > Boulogne-Billancourt.
Documentary photography.
Genre:
Documentary photography.
Physical Description:335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Western Europe
  • The Americas
  • The Balkans
  • The First World War
  • The Far East
  • Indochina
  • The Middle East
  • Africa
  • Portraits
  • Appendix 1: The autochrome process
  • Appendix 2: Albert Kahn : the man and his legacy
  • Index of countries
  • Addtional captions
  • Sources and further reading.