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Over 100 years ago, a French banker named Albert Kahn undertook a massive photography project that became known as The Archives of the Planet. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using the Autochrome Lumière process, to document in color what they saw. One of the cities they documented was Paris. Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers (Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon) began to document daily life in…

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An Insider's View Of 19th-Century Paris (Even The Urinals) | WBUR News Gas Lamps, Paris History, Modern Metropolis, Old Paris, Paris Vintage, Paris Photography, Paris Photo, French Photographers, Photos Vintage

In the early 1860s, Napoleon III commissioned photographer Charles Marville to document the city's transformation from medieval architectural hodgepodge to modern metropolis. The results of that project, known as the Old Paris album, are now on display at the National Gallery of Art.

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