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Titre(s) : Cosmopolitics of the camera [Texte imprimé] : Albert Kahn's archives of the planet / edited by Trond Erik Bjorli and Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen
Publication : Bristol : Intellect Books, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : vi, 334 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
In 'Cosmopolitics of the Camera', the leading experts in the field present 'Les Archives
de la Planete'--Albert Kahn's stunning collection of early color 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 thousand
meters of film, 72 thousand autochromes and more than 6 thousand stereographs, it
portrays the beauty and creativity of cultures whose fatal disappearance Kahn believed
to be only a question of time.0 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
to discuss the problem of how to make new media of communication serve the cause of
peace and human development. 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bjorli, Trond. Éditeur scientifique
Jakobsen, Kjetil. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Kahn, Albert (1860-1940) -- Collections de photographies
Films ethnographiques -- Collectionneurs et collections
Musée départemental Albert Kahn (Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine)
Indice(s) Dewey :
770 (23e éd.) = Photographie, art par ordinateur, cinématographie, vidéographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1789381894. - ISBN 9781789381894. - ISBN 9781789381900 (erroné) (ePub ebook).
- ISBN 9781789381917 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467297450
Notice n° :
FRBNF46729745
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