From 7 October until 3 April 2023, the Musée du Nouveau Monde presents Rio in color and relief. Through the photos of Albert Kahn’s Trip to South America -1909, an exhibition of photographs taken during the carioca stay of Albert Kahn.
The exhibition brings together 60 autochromes – 35 about Rio de Janeiro -, more than 600 black and white stereoscopic plates – 238 positive, 387 negative – and a film about the arrival in the bay of Rio and some scenes during the maritime journey. From the images and date indications on the original labels of the stereoscopic plates taken at each stage and release ports, the history of the trip to South America could be partly reconstructed.
Presented for the first time to the public, these 200 photographs are the first color photographs of Rio de Janeiro and three years before the project of the Archives of the Planet.
This corpus, preserved at the Albert-Kahn Departmental Museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, shows both the majesty of the landscapes in which the capital city was built, and the European modernity of its new avenues, without forgetting the poetry of the small crafts that make up the ordinary of its historic streets. The photographer, unidentified, also takes a subtle look at the black presence in this city, the first slave port in the Americas.
Commissioner: Laurent Vidal, University Professor, La Rochelle, and Scientific Director of the ethnopole «Ocean Humanities» and Mélanie Moreau, Director of the Museums of Art and History of La Rochelle.
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