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32: 102: 354:, to Japan on business and returned with many photographs of the journey. This prompted him to begin a project to collect a photographic record of the entire Earth. He appointed Jean Brunhes as the project director and sent photographers to every continent to record images of the planet using the first practical medium for colour photography, 477: 318:, Kahn became bankrupt. At that time the garden was turned into a public park in which Kahn would still take walks. The garden brings together distinct traditions (French, English and Japanese), as if to illustrate the utopia of a world reconciled, where different realities can coexist in perfect harmony. 488: 513: 369:
Kahn's photographers began documenting France in 1914, just days before the outbreak of World War I, and by liaising with the military, they managed to record both the devastation of war and the struggle to continue everyday life and agricultural work.
509: 501: 473: 258:. In 1892, Kahn became a principal associate of the Goudchaux Bank, which was then regarded as one of the most important financial houses in Europe. He also promoted higher education through travel scholarships. 465: 362:. Between 1909 and 1931, they collected 72,000 colour photographs and 183,000 meters of film. These form a unique historical record of 50 countries, known as 232:, France, on 3 March 1860, the eldest of four children of Louis Kahn, a Jewish cattle dealer, and Babette Kahn (née Bloch), an uneducated homebound mother. 279: 580: 484: 439: 428: 575: 250:, who became his lifelong friend. He graduated in 1881 and continued to mix in intellectual circles, making friends with 585: 449: 75: 53: 46: 590: 600: 243:
in north-eastern France in 1872, where he continued his studies at the Collège de Saverne from 1873 to 1876.
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Since 1986, the photographs and films have been collected into a national museum at 14 Rue du Port,
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In 1879, Kahn became a bank clerk in Paris but studied for a degree in the evenings. His tutor was
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Kahn's mother died when he was ten years old, and, following the
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French banker, philanthropist, pioneer of photography (1860–1940)
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Les Archives de la Planète. A Cinematographic Atlas, in Jump Cut
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The story of Kahn's photographic atlas (accessed November 2007)
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In 1909, Kahn travelled with his chauffeur and photographer,
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ruined Kahn and put an end to his project. Kahn died at
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Edwardians In Colour: The Wonderful World Of Albert Kahn
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Bas-Rhin
German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
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Auguste Rodin
Mathurin MĂ©heut
Great Depression
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Nazi occupation of France
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