Monday, June 14, 2010

Early 1900s Photography in Color

In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography
www.albert-kahn.fr/english/
Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. When the Lumière brothers launched it commercially in June 1907, it was a photograhic revolution - black and white came to life in colour. Autochromes consist of fine layers of microscopic grains of potato starch – dyed either red-orange, green or violet blue – combined with black carbon particles, spread over a glass plate where it is combined with a black and white photographic emulsion. All colours can be reproduced from three primary colours.
www.albertkahn.co.uk
A few photos from the collection.
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Portraits
image 42107
Algeria
image 42109
image 42108
Dahomey - now Benin
image 42110
Bosnia
image 42111
Brasil
image 42112
Bulgaria
image 42113
Cambodia
image 42114
image 42115
Canada
image 42116
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China
image 42118
Croatia
image 42119
Dijbouti
image 42120
Egypt
image 42121
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England
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image 42128
France
image 42129
Germany
image 42130
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Greece
image 42132
Holland
image 42133
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India
image 42137
Iran
image 42138
Iraq
image 42139
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Ireland
image 42141
Italy
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image 42143
Lebenon
image 42144
Macedonia
image 42145
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Mongolia
image 42148
Montenegro
image 42149
image 42150
Morocco
image 42151
Norway
image 42152
Palestine
image 42153
image 42154
Serbia
image 42155
Spain
image 42156
Sri Lanka
image 42157
Sweden
image 42158
Switzerland
image 42159
Syria
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Turkey
image 42163
United States of America
image 42164
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image 42167
Vietnam
Albert Kahn was a man of peace but unfortunately he had to live through three major wars against his country. The following are colour images of World War One.
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