[Arkoquisa]

Albert Kahn autochrome photo, mongolia early 20th century
brutal!

[**butterflylove**]

Not a crate way to go

[Bastet]

Well they don't have to get a separate coffin

[elizajane]

Least there was plenty legroom....

[Sharon]

Amazing photo, great find!

[Karma]

I'd love to know why they did this. What the crime was. I think we should do that now! Also, I wonder what the small bowls on the ground were for? Some kind of animal food bowls? Never seen a torture/murder device like that before. Great find.

[Pelle]

[Shylock]

Damn

[kellyhound]

In 1909, millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn decided to enlist the era’s burgeoning photographic technology in a mission far greater than aesthetic fetishism, and set out to use the new autochrome — the world’s first true color photographic process, invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and marketed in 1907 — to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth as a way of promoting peace and fostering cross-cultural understanding. For Kahn, photography was a way of cataloging the human “tribes” of the world and constructing a vibrant, colorful quilt of our shared humanity.

Over the next two decades, until he was ruined by The Great Depression, Kahn dispatched a crew of photographers to more than 50 countries around the world, shooting over 100 hours of film footage and 72,000 images in what became the most important and influential collection of early color photographs of all time. Yet, for decades, the collection — which spanned everything from religious rituals to cultural customs to watershed political events — remained virtually unknown, until it was rediscovered in the 1980s.

[Faline]

Intriguing pic