The Archive of a Vanishing World
August 29, 2022 6:40 PM Subscribe
It is a madcap, romantic thing to try to document the entire Earth, an undertaking so ambitious and so hopeful it must be delusional. And yet, faced with the crisis of a rapidly changing world at the start of the 20th century, that is precisely what Albert Kahn sought to do. Between 1909 and 1931, he dispatched a team to distant lands to record the world in photography and film exactly as it was: its people, landforms and ways of life.
But what the Archives de la Planète makes clear is how much is at stake for us today. It preserves in great antique beauty much of what was then crumbling and vanishing.
Looks fascinating. I'm thinking of planning a trip to Paris just for this museum now.
posted by Kosmob0t at 8:49 AM on August 30, 2022
posted by Kosmob0t at 8:49 AM on August 30, 2022
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posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 5:19 PM on August 30, 2022
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 5:19 PM on August 30, 2022
I did a very strange little jig upon seeing the first few photos which I am interpreting to mean that I have unlocked a new niche interest
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posted by The Adventure Begins at 9:27 PM on August 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
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