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Books : The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the PlanetIn association with Amazon.comby: David Okuefuna  List Price: $49.50 Amazon.com's Price: $32.67 You Save: $16.83 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 770 EAN: 9780691139074 ISBN: 0691139075 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: November 02, 2008 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 24376 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - good overviewThis book draws on the same material and uses many of the images contained in the BBC documentary on Kahn. It is well laid out, contains useful - but not exhaustive - commentary on the images selected. It is very well produced in terms of quality of paper, reproduction and binding Rating: - Valuble contribution to the photographic historyI have some books illustrated by old Autochrome color photographs, but this book ist well printed (not too brillant in the colors) and contains a lot of rare pictures throughout the world including World War I. Rating: - 5 For Photos 3 For CommentaryI learned about Albert Kahn and his project only a year ago and I eagerly anticipated this volume. The pictures do not disappoint. They are the star of the show. Unfortunately the curator's modern political views come in to play in the text and in the photo descriptions. Instead of reveling in the historic glory of these images we are instead given a banal political discourse which is an intrusion into the intent and product of this project. It is truly a shame. 5 stars as the historical ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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