Friday, 17 May 2013

Of interest to Costume Production and Photography Students... .

The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age by David Okuefuna

'In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world using the, then new, Autochrome process. Over the next 20 years he created  the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.’ – summary from Amazon.

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