Title & Author:

Cosmopolitics of the camera : Albert Kahn's archives of the planet / edited by Trond Erik Bjorli and Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen.

Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2020.
©2020

Description:

vi, 334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (some color); 25 cm

Notes:
"This is a peer-reviewed publication."--Page iv.
Thirteen contributions (plus Introduction), in English.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334).
(from table of contents) Introduction / Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen and Trond Erik Bjorli -- The Archives Of The Planet : between science and action / Valérie Perlès -- Photography, gunpowder and fertilizer : Albert Kahn's Norwegian journey / Trond Erik Bjorli -- Japan in the Archives of the Planet / Anne Sigaud -- The Archives of the Planet and the First World War / Emmanuelle Danchin -- Pacifist photography : seeing the face of humanity / Jay Winter -- Experimental cosmopolitanism : the limits of autour du monde-ism in the Kahn Archive / Paula Amad -- The Kahn Archive : a visual memory that is truly cosmopolitan? / Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen and Milena Nikolova -- The Archives of the Planet : between cosmopolitanism and patriotism / Anne Sigaud -- Henri Bergson and Albert Kahn : the cosmopolitan method / Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen -- Autochromes in service of human geography : Jean Brunhes and the aesthetics of the Archives of the Planet / Franziska Scheuer -- Bergson's aesthetics? Autochroming a world of memories / Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen -- Digital returns : the Archives of the Planet and the 'rhythm of life' / Trond Lundemo -- Postscript : The digital futures of historical media archives / Wolfgang Ernst.

Summary:

"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 his key collaborators, the geographer Jean Brunhes and the philosopher Henri Bergson."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
In 'Cosmopolitics of the Camera', the leading experts in the field present 'Les Archives de la Planète'--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. 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.

ISBN:

9781789381894 paperback
1789381894 paperback
(ePub ebook)
9781789381900
(PDF ebook)
9781789381917

Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940 Criticism and interpretation History.
Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940
Color photography.
Color photography History.
Documentary films.
Photographs Social aspects.
Photography in social change.
Internationalism.
Photographie en couleurs.
Photographie en couleurs Histoire.
Documentaires.
Photographies Aspect social.
Internationalisme.
color photography.
internationalism.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940.
Bjorli, Trond, editor, contributor.
Jakobsen, Kjetil, editor, contributor.
Bjorli, Trond editor.
Jakobsen, Kjetil editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308866
Call No.: BIB 254189
Status: Available