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Jan 9, 2023 · Nearly 70,000 photos from the Archives of the Planet are now available to download at high resolution thanks to the Albert Kahn Museum. Seeing images of life from 100+ years ago in color is incredible.
- Albert Kahn's Formative Early Life
- The "Around The World" Scholarship
- Albert Kahn's "Archives of The Planet"
- The End of The Photography Project
Born on March 3, 1860, in Marmoutier, France, Albert Kahn grew up in a Jewish family. When he was just a boy, the Prussians annexed his home province of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, and so the Kahn family relocated to a different area of France. Eventually, Albert Kahn moved to Paris. As Jews, the Kahn family confronted discrimination, bigotry, and sys...
Albert Kahn began acting on these beliefs by establishing his Autour du Monde ("Around the World") scholarships in 1898. A precursor to many modern international exchanges, Kahn's scholarship funds paid for young doctoral graduates to travel the world and explore new places. "I ask only one thing of you," Kahn said to the scholarship winners, accor...
From 1909 to 1931, Kahn's team traveled to 50 different countries, including Turkey, Algeria, Vietnam (which was then known as French Indochina), Sudan, Mongolia, and Kahn's home country France. Their collective work totals about 72,000 autochromes and over 100 hours of video footage. Though the photographers' names — Auguste Léon, Stéphane Passet,...
Albert Kahn's fortune collapsed with the world economy by the 1930s. By 1931, the money for The Archives of the Planet had run out. His vision of a more peaceful future also had its limits. Kahn died in 1940, at the age of 80, only a few months into the Nazi occupation of France. His Archives of the Planet project, though, still lives on. Visitors ...
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Dec 11, 2022 · December 11, 2022 10:28 GMT. By Amos Chapple. Photo: Musée Albert-Kahn (Courtesy Image) Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of...
Nov 5, 2019 · To preserve the memory of the world as it was; troubled by wars and disappearing under the power of modernity and imperialism, Albert Kahn started an ambitious project he called The Archives of the Planet. He sent photographers and cinematographers around the world for over twenty-two years, between 1909 and 1931.
Jan 11, 2023 · Jan 11, 2023. Jaron Schneider. Giza , Egypt , Africa The Sphinx and the Cheops pyramid | 1914. The Albert Kahn departmental museum in France has released nearly 25,000 color photos of early...
Dec 11, 2015 · 55 Rare Color Photos Of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago. Tired of the endless series of black and white photos that were popular in the day, French banker Albert Kahn decided to do something about it. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using Autochrome Lumière, to document in color what they ...
Jan 6, 2017 · Egypt, Giza, 1913 ©Musee Albert-Kahn. What’s interesting about the images you see here, apart from the people and locations they depict, is the fact that they represent some of the finest early color photos in existence. Family in Paris, 1914 ©Musee Albert-Kahn.
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