Admire the first color photos of Vietnam and the world

In 1909, the banker in France, Albert Kahn, began creating a 'photo gallery of human life on earth'. His team collected a total of 72,000 color photos in more than 50 countries, making it the largest collection ever in the 'newborn' phase of color photos.

In addition to the 72,000 stills collected, Kahn's team accumulated more than 100 hours of movies during the 22 years of the 'massive' project.

Although the bank went bankrupt after the Great Depression, Albert Kahn's collection remained 'steady' and became the most vivid history of human life.

As a dreamer and thoughtful of internationalization, Kahn believes that he can use the color photo-glass method, the world's first true and friendly color imaging system, to enhance interference. culture and peace among peoples.

Until recently, Kahn's huge collection of 72,000 stained-glass photos was still a mystery to the world.

A pair of double peaches in an ancient troupe.Photo taken in 1915.

After a decade of project implementation, the book 'The Great World of Albert Kahn' was born with the BBC series with the aim of giving viewers a different view of the world as if it were a 'picture. one color 'before.

Kahn sent his photographers to more than 50 countries around the world, often at critical times in history, when the civilization of the old age was changed by war or the boundary of globalization. early 20th century.

They recorded the most realistic colors of the fall of the Ottoman and Austrian-Hungarian empires, the last ancient Celtic villages in Ireland or the soldiers participating in the First World War.

They took the first color photos in distant countries like Vietnam, Brazil, Mongolia, Norway, Belarus (now Nigeria) and the United States.

In 1929, the collapse of Wall Street forced Kahn to stop the project. He died in 1940 and left the world with a very important collection of color photos.

Here are some pictures of Vietnam in 1915 in Albert Kahn's collection:

Hang Gai Street.

The mandarin of the Nguyen dynasty.

Image of Long Bien Bridge in Albert Kahn's collection.

Mr. Do wrote a sentence for Tet.

Banana merchant boat docked at Red River wharf.

Some world landmarks in Kahn's collection: