Hilarious Photo Series Explains How To Make A Baby. 15 Incredible Color Photos from a Lost Age | Listverse. History During a visit to the library recently, I came across a book called “The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn”. Tempted by the cover to have a look inside, I found a collection of about four hundred colour photographs – many of them dating from before 1920. Albert Kahn’s story blew me away. According to the blurb of the book: “Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of twentieth century globalisation.”
Nobody really knew about Kahn’s collection – numbering more than 72,000 autochromes – until quite recently. Now, thanks to the dusty compilers at the BBC, we’re finally giving some colour to what we have tended to imagine as an utterly foreign, black-and-white age. Mongolian Hunter Mongolia, 20 July 1913 Kurdish Girls Carrying Water Jars Zakho, Iraq, 11 May 1917 Victim of Ethnic Cleansing. 50 Amazing Photos From Cat Heaven Island In Japan. Super-Phallic Weight Watchers Ads.