Color Galore in the French Colonial Empire-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Color Galore in the French Colonial Empire

Published:2022-12-01 Issue:3-4 Volume:29 Page:20-30
ISSN:2751-0476
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Author:

Simonetti Marie-Agathe¹

Affiliation:

1. PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Art History, 232 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building , 800 University Avenue , Madison , WI 53706 , USA

Abstract

Abstract Léon Busy (1874–1951) was an amateur photographer mostly known for his autochromes made in French Indochina for Albert Kahn’s multimedia collection “Les Archives de la planète” (Archives of the Planet). In addition to being an operator for Kahn, this article casts light on a less studied part of Busy’s life: his engagement with the French government of Indochina as of 1921. He exhibited his autochromes at the colonial exhibitions in Marseille (1922) and Paris (1931) and also served as head of the photographic section of the Office indochinois du Tourisme et de la Propagande (Indo-Chinese office of tourism and propaganda). This article provides an insight into my current research project and intends to demonstrate Busy’s instrumental role in producing colonial propaganda in color for the French government.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/rbf-2022-3004/pdf

Reference55 articles.

1. Albert Kahn’s Archives de la planète was an ambitious project to capture the world in color and in films. Kahn spent his fortune to send operators across the globe to take autochromes and films of all the different countries, people and landscapes. For more information: https://albert-kahn.hauts-deseine.fr/les-collections/presentation/photographies-et-films/les-archives-de-la-planete (last accessed August 11, 2022).

2. Trong Hiéu Dinh, Ronan Guinée, Guillaume Maylander and Emmanuel Poisson: Hanoï en couleurs 1914–1917 : Autochromes des Archives de la Planète, exh. cat. Institut français de Hanoi, December 9–January 11, 2014, Paris: Riveneuve 2014, p. 18.

3. Books on Busy have not dealt with the consequence of his work for the French government of Indochina, except for Franziska Scheuer: Bilder für den Frieden. Gestaltung und historischer Gebrauch der Autochrome des Multimediaensembles ,Les Archives de la planete‘ (1908–1931), Dissertation, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2020.

4. Information from Léon Busy’s military file from the Service historique de la Défense in Vincennes, France, inventory number: SHD GR6 YE 52391.

5. Ibid.

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