Paris, in Full Bloom and Color, in the Early 1900s.
No one is a stranger to the black and white vintage photographs back in the day. Despite that exhausting trend, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier, and Auguste Leon set out in 1909 under the strict instructions of a French banker Albert Kahn and went on a journey around the world armed with only an Autochrome Lumière.
Their rule was simple: go out to the world and document it in vivid and alive colors. These photographers took on Paris in 1914, in all its chaotic and charming city life. The best thing about this series is it reveals how much we’ve missed the true look of Paris 100 years ago. Paris, a century back in color, is a thriving city tinted with colorful posters,
No one is a stranger to the black and white vintage photographs back in the day. Despite that exhausting trend, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier, and Auguste Leon set out in 1909 under the strict instructions of a French banker Albert Kahn and went on a journey around the world armed with only an Autochrome Lumière.
Their rule was simple: go out to the world and document it in vivid and alive colors. These photographers took on Paris in 1914, in all its chaotic and charming city life. The best thing about this series is it reveals how much we’ve missed the true look of Paris 100 years ago. Paris, a century back in color, is a thriving city tinted with colorful posters,