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- Title
- The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
- Meta Description
- Random House Group Edition, 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 worlds first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.Until recently, Kahns huge collection of 72,000 Autochromes remained relatively unheard of. Now, a century after he launched his project, this photography book and the BBC TV series it accompanies are bringing these dazzling historical photos to a mass audience for the first time and putting colour into what we tend to think of as an entirely monochrome age.Kahn sent photographers to more than 50 countries, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of 20th-century globalisation ...
- Meta Keywords
- The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn, David Okuefuna, BBC Books, Ebury Publishing, History, Non-Fiction, Art and Music, History, Humanities, Photography and photographs, The arts, 9781846074585