Color photographs from a lost worldMAY 05 2010

Albert Kahn was a French banker and philanthropist who financed an extensive photography project in the early 1900s. His photographers traveled all around the world, eventually amassing a collection 72,000 color photos.

Kahn's project is the subject of a 9-part BBC documentary that's showing on Ovation this week. (All the episodes repeat on Saturday starting at noon.) Here is a trailer of sorts:

(via constant siege)