Belle Indochine

Over 100 years ago, there are color photos of Vietnam in the "planet repository" of Albert Kahn. In 1909, Albert Kahn, a millionaire banker - also a famous French philanthropist, began a ambitious project: to build a repository of color photos of all the different cultures around the world using the most advanced color photography technique at the time invented by the Lumière brothers in 1907. 一百多年前，阿尔伯特·卡恩的“星球宝库”里就收藏着越南的彩色照片。1909年，百万富翁银行家、法国著名慈善家阿尔伯特·卡恩开始了一项雄心勃勃的项目：利用卢米埃尔兄弟1907年发明的当时最先进的彩色摄影技术，建立一个收藏世界各地不同文化的彩色照片的宝库。 This process used the autochrome color photo technique, making it easy to capture photos with accurate colors. As an idealist and internationalist, Albert Kahn believed he could use his vast wealth to create a "planet repository" to promote peace and understanding between cultures. Until now, 72,000 color photos in Albert Kahn's project, taken over a century ago, remain the most important collection of the world's first color photography era. However, many photos in this collection have never been published, like the old photos of Vietnam and Hanoi, taken around 1910-1920. To create this "planet repository," Albert Kahn hired brave and adventurous photographers to travel to over 50 countries around the world - often to hotspots full of unrest at the time, where ancient cultures were on the brink of unprecedented changes due to wars and the globalizing trends of the early 20th century. They also captured many images in distant lands that the world had yet to discover, such as Vietnam, Japan, Brazil, Mongolia, Benin… By early 1929, Albert Kahn was still one of the wealthiest people in Europe. However, by the end of that year, with the onset of the global economic crisis marked by the Wall Street market crash, his fortune began to dwindle and Albert Kahn had to stop his "planet repository" project in 1931. Albert Kahn passed away in 1940. His legacy is now preserved at the Albert Kahn Museum, which is also the house where he lived for many years in Boulogne, Billancourt in the western outskirts of Paris. This place is a beautiful garden that attracts many visitors from all over. Today, Ngoc Vuong will present some images of Hanoi and Vietnam from among the 1382 autochrome color photos by Albert Kahn from the years 1914-1916, featured on the Belle Indochine page in France. An old calligrapher in Hanoi selling characters in 1915. Một ông đồ bán chữ ở Hà Nội (1915) In 1915, Quan Thống, the ambassador of North Vietnam, was accompanied by his wife and four children. Quan Thống sứ Bắc kỳ bên người vợ và 4 đứa con (1915) 这一过程采用了自动彩色照片技术，因此很容易拍摄出色彩准确的照片。作为一名理想主义者和国际主义者，阿尔伯特·卡恩相信他可以利用自己的巨额财富创建一个“星球库”，以促进和平与文化之间的理解。 至今，阿尔伯特·卡恩项目中拍摄于一个多世纪前的 72,000 张彩色照片仍然是世界上第一个彩色摄影时代最重要的收藏。然而，这个收藏中的许多照片从未发表过，比如 1910-1920 年左右拍摄的越南和河内的老照片。 为了创建这个“星球库”，阿尔伯特·卡恩聘请了勇敢而富有冒险精神的摄影师前往全球 50 多个国家——通常是当时充满动荡的热点地区，那里的古老文化正因战争和 20 世纪初的全球化趋势而面临前所未有的变化。他们还拍摄了许多世界尚未发现的遥远土地的图像，例如越南、日本、巴西、蒙古、贝宁…… 到 1929 年初，阿尔伯特·卡恩仍然是欧洲最富有的人之一。然而，到那年年底，随着以华尔街市场崩盘为标志的全球经济危机的爆发，他的财富开始减少，阿尔伯特·卡恩不得不在 1931 年停止他的“星球储存库”项目。 阿尔伯特·卡恩于 1940 年去世。他的遗产现在保存在阿尔伯特·卡恩博物馆，这也是他多年来居住的位于巴黎西郊比扬古布洛涅的房子。这个地方是一个美丽的花园，吸引了来自世界各地的众多游客。 今天，Ngoc Vuong 将展示阿尔伯特·卡恩在 1914 年至 1916 年间拍摄的 1382 张河内和越南的照片，这些照片曾刊登在法国《美丽印度支那》杂志的版面上。 Cooking rice (1915) Nấu cơm (1915) "A variety of professions near Hanoi" Các hương chức gần Hà Nội There are phoenix-winged bulls in Hanoi. Têm trầu cánh phượng (Hà Nội) Năm 1909, ông Albert Kahn, một chủ nhà băng triệu phú - cũng là một nhà hoạt động từ thiện nổi tiếng người Pháp, bắt đầu tiến…