THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A LOST AGE
Book ID/图书代码： 11340007B17824
English Summary/英文概要： 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 book and the BBC TV series it accompanies are bringing these 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 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 twentieth-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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿尔伯特•卡恩（Albert Kahn）是阿尔萨斯出生的法国犹太人，因投资南非黄金和宝石矿山成功，成为欧洲屈指可数的富豪，此后自己开设银行，参与发行国际公债，并热心从事慈善事业。在激烈动荡的年代，他目睹世界各地的民族文化、生活的急剧变化，萌生了设立地球史料馆，保留此时此刻世界面貌的构想。
从1908年开始，他倾注了膨大的资产和心血，在二十余年中，派遣大量摄影师去世界各地，采用当时最先进的彩色摄影技术，拍摄了七万两千余枚彩色照片、长达一百小时的黑白和彩色电影胶卷，记录了二十世纪初叶，五十多个国家的民众，在时代变迁的浪潮席卷下的日常劳动、娱乐、传统仪式以及各年代的代表性事件，成为名垂世界映像史的一大壮举。
但是卡恩在二十年代的世界经济恐慌中破产，使他的计划遭到毁灭性打击，失意中的他于1941年底，在德军占领下的巴黎黯然去世，唯一留在他身边的庞大的映像收藏，也渐渐被人遗忘。直到1970年代，这些珍贵的映像才重新被发现整理，受到世界各国学者的赞叹和重视。
身为理想主义者和和平主义者的阿尔伯特•卡恩，相信他的映像收藏，能促进人类相互宽容，和对异文化的尊重和理解，制止世界战争。他的理想虽然已化为泡影，但仍为我们提供了机会，从新的角度审视二十世纪初的历史。
Awards/获奖情况：’A fascinating and vivid celebration of the earliest examples of colour photography’-Gareth McLean,Guardian
’Astonishing images’-Time Out
’A legacy of inestimable richness’-Benjamin Secher,Telegraph
About the Author/作者介绍： David Okuefuna is the executive producer of the BBC television series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn. He has worked on numerous documentary series and single films for BBC4,including Racism:A History,The Sory of Maths,Shepperton Babylon and The Waughs:Fathers and Sons, as well as the BBC2 comedy-darma The Private Life of Samuel Pepys.This is his first book.
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