Книга: David Okuefuna «The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn»
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Производитель: "BBC Books" In 1909 the millionaire French hanker 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 world`s first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding. Until recently, Kahn`s huge collection of 72, 000 autochromes remained relatively unheard of, the vast majority of them unpublished. Now, a century after he launched his Archives of the Planet project, this book and the BBC television series it accompanies are bringing Albert Kahn`s dazzling pictures to a mass audience for the first time and putting colour into what we tend to think of as an entirely monochrome age. Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when... ISBN:9781846074585 Издательство: "BBC Books" (2008)
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