The occasional ten year old photoblog post interspersed with whatever else takes my fancy

24th February 2012

Photo reblogged from B&H Photo Video Pro Audio with 36 notes

Som amazing pictures here - bandh: “In 1909, millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn decided to enlist the era’s burgeoning photographic technology in a mission far greater than aesthetic fetishism, and set out to use the new autochrome — the world’s first true color photographic process, invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and marketed in 1907 — to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth as a way of promoting peace and fostering cross-cultural understanding.” (via The Dawn of the Color Photograph: How Albert Kahn Cataloged Humanity | Brain Pickings)

Som amazing pictures here -

bandh:

“In 1909, millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn decided to enlist the era’s burgeoning photographic technology in a mission far greater than aesthetic fetishism, and set out to use the new autochrome — the world’s first true color photographic process, invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and marketed in 1907 — to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth as a way of promoting peace and fostering cross-cultural understanding.”

(via The Dawn of the Color Photograph: How Albert Kahn Cataloged Humanity | Brain Pickings)

Tagged: historyphotography

Source: brainpickings.org

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