Item #2022-M262 The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet. David Okuefuna.
The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet

The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet

Princeton University Press, 2008. Hardcover. 9.5" x 9.75". A clean and unmarked copy, very good in a very good jacket. From the front flap: '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 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.'. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2022-M262
ISBN: 9780691139074

Price: $92.95

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