Albert E. Kahn's Books
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Art and Antiques, March 11, 2009
...paths straight or crooked. Fans of photography will not want to miss The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn?s Archives of the Planet, by David Okuefuna (Princeton, $49.50). From 1908 to 1931, a French businessman named Albert Kahn used his...
Globe and Mail, December 13, 2008
...William. In the end, a haunting portrait of the age of celebrity. THE DAWN OF THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet, by David Okuefuna, Princeton University Press, $59.50 When the Lumière brothers invented colour photography in 1907,...
Guardian Unlimited, December 12, 2008
...home along a rutted track in a snowstorm - that marks out this collection. The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn by David Okuefuna (BBC, 35) is an astonishing record of some of the 72,000 autochromes that the millionnaire philanthropist collected during the...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 21, 2008
...In 1909, Albert Kahn initiated a project to produce a color photographic record of human life, resulting in more than 72,000 images, using photography's first true-color process, the autochrome. The photos...
Politics, Economics and other Stuff, December 27, 2008
...see history in a completely new way. How did this collection come to be? French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn dispatched photographers to the far corners of the world and supplied them with new autochrome cameras. Kahn’s goal was to create a...
