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What We're Reading: In 1911, This Man Began an Ambitious Project to Document Humanity in Color.

By David Schonauer   Wednesday January 22, 2025


Above: Autochrome of a fisherman and his wife in Volendam, the Netherlands, 1919
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Early in the 20th century, Albert Kahn, a French banker and philanthropist, saw a world on the verge of vast change,

In November 1911, as art historian Grace Linden noted recently at The Public Domain Review …


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