100 years ago in Paris – Beautiful vintage photographs of the City of Light in 1914
In 1914, Paris stood at the cusp of transformation. Through Albert Kahn’s visionary project, Archives of the Planet, photographers like Léon Gimpel and Auguste Léon utilized the pioneering Autochrome Lumière process to capture the city’s essence in color. These rare images unveil a Paris teeming wit
Some beautiful photographs taken 100 years ago in Paris, from the archives of the Fondation Albert Kahn. In 1909, this rich banker wanted to create a photographic archive of the world, hiring photographers to travel and capture the entire planet. In 1914, photographers Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon began to photograph Paris using a pioneering technique of color photography, now allowing us to rediscover what looked like the City of Light a century ago.
