Photos: The beautiful Parisian era in a few rare colorful clichés.
The site Messy Nessy Chic , relayed by PetaPixel , says that in 1909, a rich French banker named Albert Kahn decided to create world photographic archives using the new color photography process that had just appeared, autochrome Brothers of Light. He charged four photographers to take their cameras in places all over the world. One of the cities they documented was Paris.
Starting in 1914, the photographers of Albert Kahn (Léon Gimpel, Stéphane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon) began documenting life in Paris using the photographic process of restitution of the avant-garde colors, the technique of which consisted in sprinkling a glass plate with millions of microscopic particles (grains of potato starch) shades in blue (orange), green red (orange),
In addition to the large number of pictures in Paris, about 72,000 autochromes were created worldwide through the ambitious project of Albert Kahn. Autochrome lost its appreciation to photographers only a few decades after its introduction when Kodak and Agfa introduced their Kodachrome and Agfacolor-Neu processes in 1935 and 1932 respectively. These photos were collected by the Paris 1914 website.
Here is a beautiful photo gallery in color that these photographers made more than a century ago:
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