Brume dans la forêt (autochrome)

**Charles Adrien ::** Brume dans la forêt [Fontainebleau], 1907-1930. Plaque de verre Autochrome. | src SFP · Société française de photographie

Le Torii marin de l’Isukushima

Roger Dumas :: Le Torii marin de l' Isukushima-jinja au crépuscule, Itsukushima [Sanctuaire], Japon, 1926-1927. Plaque de verre Autochrome. Archives de la Planète. | src Musée Albert Kahn — **Roger Dumas ::** Le Torii marin de l’ Isukushima-jinja au crépuscule, Itsukushima [Sanctuaire], Japon, 1926-1927. Plaque de verre Autochrome. Archives de la Planète. | src Musée Albert Kahn

**Roger Dumas ::** Le Torii marin de l’ Isukushima-jinja, Itsukushima [Sanctuaire], Japon, 1926-1927. Plaque de verre Autochrome. Archives de la Planète. | src Musée Albert Kahn

Le lac Yamanaka et le mont Fuji

Roger Dumas :: Environs du village de Yamanakako, Japon. Le lac Yamanaka (Yamanaka-ko) et le mont Fuji (Fuji-san), 1926-1927. Autochromes. Archives de la Planète. | src Musée Albert Kahn — **Roger Dumas ::** Environs du village de Yamanakako, Japon. Le lac Yamanaka (Yamanaka-ko) et le mont Fuji (Fuji-san), 1926-1927. Autochromes. Archives de la Planète. | src Musée Albert Kahn

French banker Albert Kahn commissioned thirteen photographers and filmmakers (between 1909 and 1931) to fifty countries in an effort to understand and register practices and ways of life doomed to vanish. The resulting collection is known as Archives de la Planète and held at Musée Albert Kahn in Paris.

“Au coeur de la révolution industrielle de la fin du XIXe siècle et en plein essor du capitalisme, Albert Kahn, fils de marchands de bestiaux alsaciens crée sa propre banque et devient immensément riche. Profondément humaniste, il consacre sa vie à une oeuvre pacifiste protéiforme, ponctuée par la création de fondations, d’un jardin botanique, et d’une entreprise de couverture photographique et filmique d’un monde en pleine transformation: les Archives de la Planète.” | quotation src l’œil de la photographie

Rose-Marie Bachofen um 1925

From: Rose-Marie Bachofen Fotoalbum 'Jugend' © Münchner Stadtbibliothek, 2020 | src Monacensia in Hildebrandhaus

Rose-Marie Bachofen (Rose-Marie Bonsels), Schweiz, um 1925. from Fotoalbum Jugend © Münchner Stadtbibliothek, 2020 | src Monacensia in Hildebrandhaus

The Niagara Falls, ca. 1855

**Platt D. Babbitt ::** [Niagara Falls], ca. 1855. Daguerreotype in leather case. | src MFAH · Museum of Fine Arts Houston

**Platt D. Babbitt** (American, active 1840s–70s) :: The Niagara Falls, ca. 1850. Daguerreotype | src The Met

**Platt D. Babbitt** (American, active 1840s–70s) :: The Niagara Falls, ca. 1850. Daguerreotype in leather case | src The Met

**Platt D. Babbitt** (American, 1823 – 1879) :: [Scene at Niagara Falls]; about 1855. Daguerreotype.

In the 1800s Prospect Point at Niagara Falls was a popular destination for travelers in search of a transcendent encounter with nature. The falls were revered as a sacred place that was recognized by the Catholic Church in 1861 as a “pilgrim shrine,” where the faithful could contemplate the landscape as an example of divine majesty.

Platt D. Babbitt would customarily set up his camera in an open-sided pavilion and photograph groups of tourists admiring the falls without their knowledge, as he appears to have done here. Later he would sell the unsuspecting subjects their daguerreotype likenesses alongside the natural wonder. | quoted from Getty Museum

**Platt D. Babbitt ::** [Scene at Niagara Falls], ca. 1855. Daguerreotype | src Getty Museum Collection

Two well-dressed couples are seen from behind as they stand on the shore downstream from the falls, gazing at its majestic splendor. The silhouetted forms–women wearing full skirts and bonnets and carrying umbrellas and men in stovepipe hats–are sharply outlined against the patch of shore and expansive, white foam. | quoted from Getty Museum