The Wonderful World Of Albert Kahn David Okuefuna Bbc Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Photography

In 1909 The Millionaire French Banker And Philanthropist Albert Kahn Embarked On An Ambitious Project To Create A Colour Photographic Record Of For Peoples World As Idealist Internationalist Believed That He Could Use New Autochrome Process World\ S First User-Friendly True-Colour System Promote Cross-Cultural Peace Understanding Until Recently Kahn\ Huge Collection 72 000 Autochromes Remained Relatively Unheard Now Century After Launched His This Photography Book Bbc Tv Series It Accompanies Are Bringing These Dazzling Historical Photos Mass Audience Time Putting Into What We Tend Think Entirely Monochrome Age Sent Photographers More Than 50 Countries Often At Crucial Junctures Their History When Age-Old Cultures Were Brink Being Changed Ever By War March 20Th-Century Globalisation They Documented True Collapse Ottoman Austro-Hungarian Empires Last Traditional Celtic Villages Ireland Soldiers Took Earliest Known Photographs Far Apart Vietnam Brazil Mongolia Norway Benin United States 1929 Wall Street Crash Forced Bring End Died 1940 But Left Behind Most Important Early Σελίδες: 336 Διαστάσεις: 24 3X24 3Cm