Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
by
Paula Amad
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its...