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philanthropy is matched in scale by the generosity of Tim Berners Lee in giving away his powerful World Wide Web software into the public domain in 1992-3. Both Berners Lee and Kahn before him were gifted with an internationalist vision, a vision that was crystallised from the 1960s onwards in the work of several great pioneers - Buckminster Fuller (Spaceship Earth), Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog), Joseph Licklider (ARPANET - internet), the BBC world-satellite broadcast of the Beatles All You Need is Love in Our World in 1968, and of course Live Aid - Bob Geldof’s vision of
ending Global poverty in the 1980s.
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mrcvault/videographies/kahn-albertalbert-kahns-archive-planet
I love this - thank you so much Albert Kahn - you may have had the body of a successful banker, but you had the soul of a true artist, the eye of a visionary, and a global consciousness all too rare at any time. To use your own money to establish and support the generation of the largest photo-essay ever made! - His subject? Nothing less than humanity - and not just privileged Westerners but ALL mankind - representatives of all the people of the world slowly frozen as it were in the elongated ex- posure of Autochrome plates over 33 years - a blink in the geologist's eye - but a complete record of us as we were in 1908-1931. Phenomenal!
Sample image from the Albert Kahn Archive (- how different travel must have been before
globalisation - these girls were in their ‘Sunday-best’ national costume...
https://www.pinterest.com.au/gregsaunderspho/albert-kahn/
And Kahn’s was not the only mammoth project that utilised early colour photography: