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Book TitleDawn of the Color Photograph : Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Techniques / Color

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorDavid Okuefuna

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight56.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width9.2 in

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ReviewsYou can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each. -- James F. X. O'Gara, Weekly Standard, The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small. -- Nicole Rudick, Bookforum, "Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why."-- Art New England, When the Lumi re brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts. -- The Globe and Mail, "The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small."-- Nicole Rudick, Bookforum, "You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography." --Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News, "To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world."-- Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, "Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world." ---Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahns Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahns photographs from every region of the world."-- Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, "The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small." --Nicole Rudick, Bookforum, "Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time." --Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina., To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world. ---Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography. ---Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News, "A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues."-- Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, You can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each., "This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina."-- Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, "You can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each." ---James F. X. O'Gara, Weekly Standard, "The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception."-- Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal, "The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight." --Ray Olson, Booklist, This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina. ---Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, "Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs." ---Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight., "Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world."-- Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from. ---Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, Praise for the television series: "A legacy of inestimable richness." --Benjamin Secher, Daily Telegraph, "Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time." ---Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small. ---Nicole Rudick, Bookforum, "You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography."-- Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News, "When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts." -- The Globe and Mail, You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography. -- Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News, "A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues." --Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception., "To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world." --Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold., Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world. ---Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important.The Dawn of the Color Photographmakes it easy to see why., Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display inThe Dawn of the Color Photograph, and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time., A beautifully illustrated book. . . .The Dawn of the Color Photographis a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues., "When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts."-- The Globe and Mail, Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world. -- Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts., A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues. -- Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world. -- Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, "The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from."-- Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, "To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world." ---Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org, This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina. -- Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, "The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buffs delight."-- Ray Olson, Booklist, When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts. -- "The Globe and Mail, The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight. -- Ray Olson, Booklist, The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception. -- Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal, Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time. -- Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time., "The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight."-- Ray Olson, Booklist, "You can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each."-- James F. X. O'Gara, Weekly Standard, "David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold." ---Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold. ---Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small., "The collection boasts what may be the earliest color photographs of the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian pyramids, as well as striking portraits of Kurdish women in northern Iraq, dancers from the Khmer ballet in Angkor, and itinerant Mongolian hunters on the steppes near the Russian border. But does the past change when we see it in color? In many instances, the vivid palette brings the images closer to our present moment, making the world--and the distance of history--frighteningly small." ---Nicole Rudick, Bookforum, Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why., David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold. -- Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph, The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet . . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world., A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues., You can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each. ---James F. X. O'Gara, Weekly Standard, "David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahns early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold."-- Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from. -- Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why. -- Art New England", "The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from." ---Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts. -- The Globe and Mail, "Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world." --Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography., The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception. ---Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal, A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues. ---Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, "The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception." --Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal, "David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold."-- Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time. ---Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, "When the Lumire brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts." -- The Globe and Mail, "A beautifully illustrated book. . . . The Dawn of the Color Photograph is a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues." ---Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from., "Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the worlds most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why."-- Art New England, "You can hardly read this collection without being conscious of the remarkable research effort involved in bringing together hundreds of thinly documented photos and attempting to write informative captions for each." --James F. X. O'Gara, Weekly Standard, A beautifully illustrated book. . . .The Dawn of the Color Photographis a handsome document full of lush and memorable images. Most of us still picture 1909 exclusively in black and white, so it's a revelation to peer back 100 years and see such eerily bright hues. -- Dushko Petrovich, The Boston Globe, "The photographs, hundreds of which are compiled in the new book, are breathtaking. . . . [An] extraordinary volume. . . . Countless beautiful images of now-lost worlds to enthrall us and remind us where we came from." --Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs. -- Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, "The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight." ---Ray Olson, Booklist, Praise for the television series: "A fascinating and vivid celebration of the earliest examples of colour photography." --Gareth McLean, Guardian, "Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs." --Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, "The French banker Albert Kahn (1860-1940) was another gambler ensorcelled by the wonders of photography. A wealthy philanthropist who hoped to promote world peace by recording life around the globe on film, he was until recently an obscure figure. David Okefuna's richly illustrated book on his life, published in the U.S. by Princeton University Press in conjunction with a BBC documentary, helped change that perception." ---Richard B. Woodward, Wall Street Journal, "This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina." --Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, "This fascinating book includes mostly posed groups of farmers, workers and artisans from Western Europe, the Americas, the Far East, Africa and Indochina." ---Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, "You'll see priceless photographs of a world in transition, including haunting shots from the poverty-stricken farms of Ireland and the battlefield trenches of the First World War. The images are fascinating, both from a historical and an artistic perspective. And one of the great things about this book is that author David Okuefuna provides enough information to help you understand how the images were taken and also their historical context. . . . The pictures featured in this book are stunning and offer a unique view of world history and also the beginnings of color photography." ---Nicole Warburton, Deseret Morning News, "David Okuefuna, a producer of the BBC television series 'The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn,' is to be commended for making Kahn's early color photography accessible. It is a joy to behold." --Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service, Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs. ---Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display inThe Dawn of the Color Photograph, and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time. -- Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, The pictures [are] full of the fascination of all old photodocumentation, heightened by color more sensual than later color processes deliver without tweaking. Accompanied by a direct, nontechnical text and complementing a BBC-TV series, this is a world-history buff's delight. ---Ray Olson, Booklist, "Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs."-- Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald, "Autochrome technology was taken up by French philanthropist Albert Kahn, who sent photographers all over the world to record in color the panoply of human cultures, all in the interest of mutual understanding and peace. The results of Kahn's generosity are on display in The Dawn of the Color Photograph , and they amount to a massive collage of the early decades of the 20th century, a time."-- Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World, "An astonishing, captivating, and extraordinary collection of early color photographs." --Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College, Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important.The Dawn of the Color Photographmakes it easy to see why. -- Art New England", "Albert Kahn's collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why." -- Art New England, Most of us would think that photos of a trip around the world made in 1908 couldn't possibly have been taken in colour, but they were. This book gives a fascinating look at some of the beautiful 72,000 colour images, which are accompanied in the archives by 4,000 black and white photographs and 120 hours of rare documentary film footage, all housed in the Musee Albert-Kahn in a Parisian suburbs., Amazing, filled with color photographs shot from about 1909 to 1929. French banker Albert Kahn sent a team of photographers to shoot pictures in autochrome, the first portable color photographic process around the globe. Blue sails, red cloaks, yellow flowers: The hues are astonishing, and so are the glimpses of a vanished world., "When the Lumire brothers invented colour photography in 1907, one of their countrymen immediately saw in it the possibility of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Albert Kahn, a banker and pacifist from Paris, dispatched photographers around the globe to document the people they found. For the next 20 years, they immortalized Germans, Montenegrins, Egyptians, Mongolians and every other manner of global citizen. This isn't a book about photography; it's a pictorial history of the colour-saturated world that existed before we all started wearing blue jeans and Nike T-shirts."-- The Globe and Mail, To celebrate a century of the little-known collection, Princeton University Press has issued an impressive new monograph,The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet. . . . The new book is the first widely available collection to reproduce Kahn's photographs from every region of the world. -- Mark Cohen, Nextbook.org

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Table Of ContentForeword 7 Introduction 9 CHAPTER 1: Western Europe 19 CHAPTER 2: The Americas 81 CHAPTER 3: The Balkans 99 CHAPTER 4: The First World War 131 CHAPTER 5: The Far East 185 CHAPTER 6: Indochina 229 CHAPTER 7: The Middle East 261 CHAPTER 8: Africa 281 CHAPTER 9: Portraits 311 APPENDIX 1: The Autochrome Process 321 APPENDIX 2: Albert Kahn: The Man and His Legacy 325 Index of Countries 332 Additional Captions 333 Sources and Further Reading 334 Acknowledgments 335

SynopsisIn 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 illustrated in color throughout--and the BBC series it follows are bringing Kahn's dazzling early twentieth-century pictures to a wide audience for the first time, and putting color into what we usually think of as a monochrome world. Kahn's photographers captured times, places, and people we simply do not expect to see in color photographs. They documented age-old cultures on the brink of being changed forever by war, modernization, and Westernization, recording the last years of Ireland's traditional Celtic villages and the late days of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. They photographed First World War soldiers in their trenches as well as the postwar celebrations in London. In the course of their travels, they also took the earliest color photographs in countries as varied as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States. After being financially ruined in the Great Depression, Kahn was forced to bring his project to a premature end, but today his collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why.

LC Classification NumberTR820.5.O395 2008