Paris, 1914: Rare Color Photos Show How The Capital Looked 100 Years Ago

Published 9 years ago

Back in 1909, French Banker Albert Kahn was getting fed up with all those black and white pictures people were taking. He was so mad he hired four photographers to go around the world taking colored photographs. They used Autochrome Lumière to bring color to the white and gray world.

Paris was among the cities they were to visit. Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier, and Auguste Leon began their work there in 1914. And now, we know how colorful the French capital was on the outbreak of WWI. And just like Roman statues were quite garishly colored instead of being plane marble, a colorful Paris sheds the false impression of greyscale.

More info: paris1914.com

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1914, albert kahn, Auguste Leon, Autochrome Lumiere, color photography, Georges Chevalier, Leon Gimpel, Paris, photography, Stephane Passet, vintage color photos, vintage photos
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