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The Wonderful World of Albert Khan

œThe Wonderful World of Albert Kahn” is just that, a wonderful book full of autochromes sumptuously reproduced from Kahn’™s huge collection.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. He believed that he could use the (then) new autochrome colour photography process to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.Now, a century after he launched his Archives of the Planet project, this book and its accompanying BBC television series are bringing 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 all over the world, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed forever by war and the merciless march of twentieth century globalisation. They documented the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires; the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland; even the soldiers during the First World War as they cooked and laundered in their trenches. They also took the earliest-known colour photographs in countries as far apart as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States.Dying in 1940, his vast finances reduced to rubble by the Wall Street Crash, Kahn died. Yet his legacy is now considered to be the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world – and this magnificent book is testament to that.

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