In 1911, one man launched an ambitious project to photograph humanity before modernization changed it forever

In 1911, French banker Albert Kahn launched an ambitious project to document humanity before modernization changed it forever. His Archives de la Planète would grow to include over 72,000 autochrome photographs and 100 hours of film footage, as Grace Linden explores in her essay for The Public Domain Review. — Read the rest

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