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"The distant past, for the first time in color. Wrenched from oblivion and rediscovered: early color photographs from the archive of media pioneer Albert KAHN.
When we conjure up images from the period around the early 20th century, they tend to be black and white. Yet thanks to Albert KAHN (1860–1940), color photography gained vital momentum as early as prior to the outbreak of World War I.
The wealthy banker used his fortune to promote the technique of color photography invented by the LUMIÉRE brothers and created the Les archives de la planète (engl.: Archives of the Planet): he assembled more than seventy thousand color photographs from throughout the world in order to set an example of understanding among nations on the eve of the war, thus making the foreign palpable.
The volume, '1914 - Welt in Farbe. Farbfotografie vor dem Krieg', presents one of the largest-scale photo projects of that period, equal in rank to the color photographs of the Russian Empire by Sergei Mikhailovich PROKUDIN-GORSKY, who had been commissioned to take them by Tsar Nicholas II, or 'Farbphotographien aus den deutschen Kolonien' (engl.: Color Photographs from the German Colonies) published by Carl Weller in Berlin." (publisher's note, © Hatje Cantz, 2013)
Exhibition schedule:
LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, September 24, 2013–February 16, 2014. The exhibition at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn marks the beginning of a series of presentations and events initiated by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) in remembrance of the outbreak of World War I. | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, May–July 2014 | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, August 1–November 2, 2014
When we conjure up images from the period around the early 20th century, they tend to be black and white. Yet thanks to Albert KAHN (1860–1940), color photography gained vital momentum as early as prior to the outbreak of World War I.
The wealthy banker used his fortune to promote the technique of color photography invented by the LUMIÉRE brothers and created the Les archives de la planète (engl.: Archives of the Planet): he assembled more than seventy thousand color photographs from throughout the world in order to set an example of understanding among nations on the eve of the war, thus making the foreign palpable.
The volume, '1914 - Welt in Farbe. Farbfotografie vor dem Krieg', presents one of the largest-scale photo projects of that period, equal in rank to the color photographs of the Russian Empire by Sergei Mikhailovich PROKUDIN-GORSKY, who had been commissioned to take them by Tsar Nicholas II, or 'Farbphotographien aus den deutschen Kolonien' (engl.: Color Photographs from the German Colonies) published by Carl Weller in Berlin." (publisher's note, © Hatje Cantz, 2013)
Exhibition schedule:
LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, September 24, 2013–February 16, 2014. The exhibition at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn marks the beginning of a series of presentations and events initiated by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) in remembrance of the outbreak of World War I. | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, May–July 2014 | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, August 1–November 2, 2014
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Rolf Sachsse
- Book design
- STEFFENS & KRUSE
- Format
- Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 28 cm., 144 S., 135 Abb.,