Today's Thing of Beauty: #Windsor #Ontario #Canada #Willistead #courtyard #HiramWalker #Walkerville #CanadianClub my childhood #library branch Now hosts #ArtInThePark #AlbertKahn #architect #photography Photo by me

Nearly 70,000 Color Photos of Early 20th Century from Albert Kahn Collection Are Now Free to Use https://petapixel.com/2023/01/11/nearly-70000-color-photos-of-early-20th-century-are-now-free-to-use/

#photography #albertkahn

A young Khalkha woman of Mongolia, photographed in Ulaanbaatar in 1913.
She wears the traditional hairstyle, with her hair formed into two horns and the lower part braided. Her crown-like hat, worn for traveling or special events, is made of velvet.
#Photography #Autochrome #AlbertKahn Museum #History #Histodon #Anthropology #Mongolia #Khalkha

@Tmmck BTW, I'm pretty sure the Archives included The Philippines (his photographers were all over). #AlbertKahn seems to have been interested in indigenous peoples and their loss in the wake of colonialism, as opposed to those in power. A quick link you may already know of: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-0442?byte=23189144;focusrgn=C01;subview=standard;view=reslist & another: https://www.nytimes.com/1927/03/20/archives/sees-china-leading-in-the-philippines-report-to-kahn-foundation.html

@Tmmck Its a very small #Paris museum in #AlbertKahn's former home and gardens but with not a large staff & near the Bois de Bologne. BTW exhibition was in May 2005, opened by Nicolas #Sarkozy. They deffo have the plates and Irish photos which I saw in situ in 2005 during exhibition. You can contact the museum directly (they speak english). BBC subsequently made a series. I've got a some books (one fat one not with Irish pix), old invite, postcards. See photos attached for your delectation! 😍

@Tmmck Might you double check the #AlbertKahn archive? In around 2007 they exhibited the Irish photographs for a year within the museum in special exhibit including Roy Esmonde's documentary on Mespoulet & Mignon. I was at the opening by the French Minister...❤️

Marguerite #Mespoulet and Madeleine #Mignon, two very early color photographers, made 73 #autochrome #photographs in #Ireland in 1913 for Albert Kahn’s #ArchivesofthePlanet project. They are the first color photographs of Ireland and they include this stunning image of a 14-year-old girl in the village of Claddagh outside of #Galway.
The Irish photographs are not currently included in the digital archive of the #AlbertKahn Museum. My thanks to @anneeroper for letting me know about them.

Reposting this 1918 color photo of a young Nasrani (Nazarene/Christian) woman of Bethlehem to commemorate the day. Photo by Paul Castelnau.
The biblical Mary was, of course, a Jewish woman of Nazareth.
#photography #history #anthropology #Palestine #Christmas #Bethlehem #AlbertKahn archive #autochrome

A woman of Mumbai stands in the doorway to her house, 17 December 1913.
Photo by Stephane Passet, Albert Kahn Museum.
#photography #autochrome #history# #anthropology #India #Mumbai #AlbertKahn archive

@Tmmck In the thumbnail post size before enlarging, I thought the Tibetan photo and date was in the vein of #AlbertKahn 's #ArchiveOfThePlanet project et le voila! Remembering #Mespoulet & #Mignon #Photography #Paris

@Sheril This photo taken in #Galway #Ireland c. 1913 and yes, in colour, not retouched by two #French women photographers #Mespoulet & #Mignon working for philanthropist, #AlbertKahn for his #ArchivesOfThePlanet shows an #Irish boy in skirt to fool the #Fairies into not taking him away (because back then #girls weren't worth as much and it was okay if they were taken by fairies)--so there's another bit of #gender #stereotyping...copyright #AlbertKahnMuseum, #Paris 😍

Ich war immer fasziniert von der gigantischen Fabrikarchitektur in #Detroit und dem turbokapitalistschem rise & fall der #Motorcity, wußte jedoch nicht, dass #AlbertKahn hinter vielen der Gebäudeentwürfe steckt. #Architektur

Ich war immer fasziniert von der gigantischen Fabrikarchitektur in #Detroit und dem turbokapitalistschem rise & fall der #Motorcity, wußte jedoch nicht, dass #AlbertKahn hinter vielen der Gebäudeentwürfe steckt. #Architektur