The Cosmopolitics of Visual Memory
Author | : Kjetil A. Jacobsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Actualities (Motion pictures) |
ISBN | : 9783037783405 |
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In 1912, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn (1860-1940) founded -The Archives of the Planet, - an extensive collection of photographs and fils that today contains 72,000 autochromes and 183,000 meters of film. Between 1909 and 1932, Kahn sent documentarists to sixty countries on four continents to capture on film and in autochromes the everyday life and the art, culture, and religion of different socieites. The Cosmopolitics of Visual Memory: Albert Kahn and the Archives of the Planet is the first publication offering a thematic access to this fascinating collection of visual records, hgihlighting aspects such as mobility, communications, or ethnographic documentation.