By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photographs. Grace Linden explores the Archives de la Planète — his sprawling, global project to document and preserve the fast-changing world — and uncovers a latent nostalgia in the hyperreal hues of early color photography.
I had a similar thought when i saw how Rabindranath Tagore was dressed.
Like, was this guy walking down the street like that? They look like old timey night clothes. Was that considered normal dress, or weird for Paris in that time? I have no idea.