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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN - DAVID OKUE...

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. As an
idealist and an internationalist  Kahn believed that he could use the new Autochrome process 
the world's first user-friendly  true-colour photographic system  to promote cross-cultural
peace and understanding.  Until recently  Kahn's huge collection of 72 000 Autochromes remained
relatively unheard of. Now  a century after he launched his project  this photography book and
the BBC TV series it accompanies are bringing these dazzling historical photos to a mass
audience for the first time and putting colour into what we tend to think of as an entirely
monochrome age.  Kahn sent photographers to more than 50 countries  often at crucial junctures
in their history  when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and
the march of 20th-century globalisation. They documented in true colour the collapse of the
Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires  the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland  and the
soldiers of the First World War. They took the earliest known colour photographs in countries
as far apart as Vietnam and Brazil  Mongolia and Norway  Benin and the United States. In 1929
the Wall Street Crash forced Kahn to bring his project to an end. He died in 1940  but left
behind the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.

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