THE WORLD OF Stéphane Passet

Описание: Stéphane Passet (1878–1942) was a French photographer associated with early colour documentary photography in the first decades of the twentieth century. Trained initially in accounting, he turned to photography in the early 1900s and became professionally active through his collaboration with the banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn. In 1912 he joined Kahn’s project Les Archives de la Planète, an ambitious visual survey intended to document cultures, landscapes, and daily life around the world using the recently developed autochrome colour process.

Between 1912 and the early 1920s, Passet travelled extensively as an operator for Les Archives de la Planète, producing autochromes and film footage in regions including Mongolia, China, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His work is characterised by frontal compositions, measured framing, and an emphasis on architectural sites, traditional dress, and social customs. Operating within the technical constraints of early colour photography, long exposure times and fragile glass plates he produced images that combined ethnographic documentation with the visual precision required by the autochrome process.

Passet’s photographs form part of the larger Albert Kahn archive, which comprises tens of thousands of autochromes and motion picture reels created between 1909 and 1931. His contribution represents a significant body of early colour imagery from Central Asia and other regions during a period of geopolitical transition preceding and following the First World War. Preserved within the Musée départemental Albert-Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt, his work remains an important source for the study of early colour processes and pre-war documentary practice.

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