Cosmopolitics of the Camera (eBook)

Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet

Trond Erik Bjorli, Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen (Herausgeber)

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2020
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-190-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn’s collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn’s work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitan strategies of Kahn and associates, e.g. Henri Bergson.

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In Cosmopolitics of the Camera, the leading experts in the field present Les Archives de la Planete (The Archives of the Planet) - Albert Kahn's stunning collection of early colour photography and documentary film - and discuss the extraordinary intellectual context from which it grew. The archives, collected between 1909 and 1932, show the cultural richness and diversity of humanity at a time of drastic geographical and historical change. Consisting of 183,000 metres of film, 72,000 autochromes and more than 6,000 stereographs, it portrays the beauty and creativity of cultures, and their fatal disappearance of which Kahn believed to be only a question of time.The Archives of the Planet was one of a string of institutions for research and international cooperation established in Kahn s utopian World Gardens near Paris. Some of the best-known minds of the age met there regularly in order to discuss the problem of how to make new media of communication serve the cause of peace and human development. The Cosmopolitics of the Camera presents ten expert voices from seven different countries, studying the work of Kahn and his key collaborators, the geographer Jean Brunhes and the philosopher Henri Bergson, in the spirit of their culturally diverse venture, placing it in its proper historical and intellectual context, and exploring its ambitious achievements and failures. By pushing Kahn s work back into active discussion, the analysis forces us to reflect on the ways our world is shaped and recorded by the media, and reactivates the time capsule that Kahn designed to communicate with the future.

Autor

lt;p>Trond Erik Bjorli is senior curator at the Norsk Folkemuseum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Oslo.

Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen is professor of intellectual history at Nord University in Norway.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2020
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Schlagworte: Albert Kahn • archival theory • Color Photography • Colour Photography • Cosmopolitanism • Documentary Film • Henri Bergson • history of colour photography • history of documentary film • life and thought of Henri Bergson • Paris • Parisian architecture • Visual Culture • war documentary • World War one documentation • wwi
• ISBN-10: 1-78938-190-8 / 1789381908
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78938-190-0 / 9781789381900