The wonderful world of Albert Kahn : colour photographs from a lost age

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Title:

The wonderful world of Albert Kahn : colour photographs from a lost age

Author:

Okuefuna, David.

ISBN:

9781846074585

Personal Author:

Okuefuna, David.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

General Note:

TV tie-in.

Contents:

Introduction -- 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.

Abstract:

Until recently, Albert Kahn's huge collection of 72,000 Autochromes remained relatively unheard of. This book and the BBC TV series it accompanies bring these pictures to a mass audience and put colour into what is thought of as an entirely monochrome age.

Personal Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940-Photograph collections.

Kahn-Albert-1860-1940-Photograph collections.

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940. (OCoLC)fst00030631

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940-fotosamlingar.

Subject Term:

Photograph collections.

Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.

Photography, Artistic.

Documentary photography.

Color photography -- Autochrome process -- History -- 20th century.

Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073

Color photography -- Autochrome process. (OCoLC)fst00868597

Documentary photography. (OCoLC)fst00896093

Photograph collections. (OCoLC)fst01061600

Photography, Artistic. (OCoLC)fst01061964

Fotografer.

Fotokonst -- historia -- 1910-talet.

Fotokonst -- historia -- 1920-talet.

Autokromfotografi.

Genre:

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874

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Summary

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new Autochrome process, the world's first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding. Until recently, Kahn's huge collection of 72,000 Autochromes remained relatively unheard of. Now, a century after he launched his project, this book and the BBC TV series it accompanies are bringing these dazzling pictures to a mass audience for the first time and putting colour into what we tend to think of as an entirely monochrome age."