Paris Coloré
from Les Archives de la planète by Albert Kahn
There was a war, there was the fear, the end of the Belle Époque. But, despite this, someone didn’t forget about the colors.
Using the Autochrome Lumière, a color photography process that had just appeared, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon begin to document life in Paris — 1914 — for Albert Kahn, controversial figure from the early 1900s.
Today, thanks to them, we have perhaps one more reason to believe in the calls of wonder and beauty.
Some color are enhanced on the original shots.
Thanks to Michael Zhang.
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ArteTête de Clown
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ArtePencils
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ArteInsane 51
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ArteFlight of the Imagination
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AroundFreedom Cove
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ArteMelody of Night
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ArteThe Bigger Picture
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ArteHer life
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ArteI Feel Everything
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ArteArtomic
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ArteNo Selfie
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ArteLines of Ordinary Madness
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ArteCorpus Tenebrosum
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HighlightsBlack & White Beauty
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ArteInterior Experience
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ArteRockwellesque
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ArteThe Constructed Family
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ArteGods and Princesses
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AroundOriginal Hairy Summer
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AroundMona Lisa
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ArteFaceless House
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AroundFlip Book Machine
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ArteMuza
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ArteVertigo
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ArtePink Fuzz
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ArteUnder Siege
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ArteDouban
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ArteKorean Macabre
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ArteFrida Anatomicum
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ArteTimeless Nights
These photos make the past seem more “real” and are also less depressing.
Amazing images. Nothing like colour photography to question how we think of the past