Amazing Layered Images Put Modern Paris Side-by-Side with Color Photographs from 99 Years Ago
Max Read · 03/28/13 03:41PMAt the beginning of the 20th century, wealthy French banker Albert Kahn embarked on a project, "Archives of the Planet," through which he sent photographers around the world to document, in an early color photography process called autochrome, the cultures and settlements of peoples from six continents. (You can see some examples here.)