A Rare Look at Paris in Colour A Century Ago
Over 100 years ago, French banker named Albert Kahn undertook a massive project as The Archives of the Planet. Between 1908 and 1930, he used his vast personal fortune to generate the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world. Photographers to every continent to collect colour snapshots of everyday life using a new technology known as the Autochrome Lumiere. Spanning 22 years, it resulted in a collection of 72,000 colour photographs and 183,000 metres of film. Here are a few of those taken in Paris:
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