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From Serena Jones on Mastodon (@SerenaJ@historians.social): "The Albert Khan Museum in France has just made available for download thousands of early autochrome photos from around the world: Khan, a banker, had top French photographers travel the world documenting everyday aspects of global life which he believed would soon vanish as the world rapidly developed. Such prescience."
Here's the image portal page of the online museum (in French), though I'm having a bit of trouble working out how to use it other than with search. To use search, use the French word (ie "Gréce" works, "Greece" doesn't).
On any image, you can click tags on the right to see related images; on the results pages for that, you can also use filters on the left.
Here's the image portal page of the online museum (in French), though I'm having a bit of trouble working out how to use it other than with search. To use search, use the French word (ie "Gréce" works, "Greece" doesn't).
On any image, you can click tags on the right to see related images; on the results pages for that, you can also use filters on the left.
Saw this the other day and that first photo took me down a bit of a rabbit hole learning about Sicanje ("Tattooing of women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina is colloquially called sicanje or bocanje, and it was a widespread custom mostly among Roman Catholic Croats in the central regions. The custom is thought to predate the Slavic migration to the Balkans and even Christianity.")
posted by gwint at 9:33 AM on December 15, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by gwint at 9:33 AM on December 15, 2022 [3 favorites]
Technology Connections did a video about the autochrome process used to take these photos.
posted by NoxAeternum at 9:39 AM on December 15, 2022
posted by NoxAeternum at 9:39 AM on December 15, 2022
The tag "vie quotidienne" gets you lots of daily life images, both still and movies, and if you use the filters on the left of the page, you can narrow it down quite nicely.
posted by drossdragon at 9:46 AM on December 15, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by drossdragon at 9:46 AM on December 15, 2022 [3 favorites]
The Senegalese Sniper Without His Weapon
This is a bad translation. The original caption is
posted by zamboni at 9:51 AM on December 15, 2022
This is a bad translation. The original caption is
Portrait d'un tirailleur sénégalais. Senegalese Tirailleurs were light colonial infantry recruited by the French from indigenous populations, and were not necessarily from Senegal.
posted by zamboni at 9:51 AM on December 15, 2022
It's *Grèce* with an è, not with an é. Aside from that, wonderful find.
posted by papineau at 10:16 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by papineau at 10:16 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]
These are wonderful. I wish I could figure out how to navigate the portal. c’est la vie
posted by mecran01 at 11:32 AM on December 15, 2022
posted by mecran01 at 11:32 AM on December 15, 2022
'Around the world' is a bit of a stretch. Let's say 'around the northern hemisphere'. There is nothing for Australie except for battlefield monuments in France (a corner of a foreign field that is forever Australie) and Indonésie is represented by building reproductions at a Paris International Colonial Exhibition (under the Netherlands banner).
posted by Thella at 12:06 PM on December 15, 2022
posted by Thella at 12:06 PM on December 15, 2022
'Around the world' is a bit of a stretch. Let's say 'around the northern hemisphere'.
'Around the world' doesn't mean 'all the world', but yes, the collection represents the interests and influence of an early 20th century French industrialist, modulated by WWI and his eventual bankruptcy. The Wikipedia article The Archives of the Planet summarizes the history of the project.
posted by zamboni at 1:20 PM on December 15, 2022
'Around the world' doesn't mean 'all the world', but yes, the collection represents the interests and influence of an early 20th century French industrialist, modulated by WWI and his eventual bankruptcy. The Wikipedia article The Archives of the Planet summarizes the history of the project.
posted by zamboni at 1:20 PM on December 15, 2022
At first, I thought it was the Albert Kahn of Detroit architecture and am gladly wrong. Nice photos.
posted by clavdivs at 1:47 PM on December 15, 2022
posted by clavdivs at 1:47 PM on December 15, 2022
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("The Senegalese Sniper Without His Weapon" is the title of my next chapbook of blank verse)
posted by chavenet at 9:32 AM on December 15, 2022