Werner Jean-François auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Surrounded by a beautiful garden, the Albert Kahn museum in Paris houses the most important collection of autochromes in the world. This corpus, known as The Archives of the Planet, was created by Albert Kahn, a wealthy French banker who, during and after World War I, ran the project to collect visual documents (photographs and films) about small economic and cultural units about to disappear, in order to promote peace through a better understanding between people of different cultures. The collection of these documents was made by professional cameramen who, before going to the field, were taught basic principles of human geography as conceptualized by the French scholar Jean Brunhes. This ambitious endeavor, which came to an end in 1932 because of Albert Kahn's bankruptcy, left us with a valuable testimony about the way European elites were relating to science, visual technologies and to other dominated societies at the turn of the 20th century. In brief, the Albert Kahn Museum and the Archives of the Planet are worth a visit for both aesthetical and intellectual reasons. specialized ANTHROPOLOGIE VISUELLE PATRIMOINE CULTUREL GEOGRAPHIE HUMAINE PHOTOGRAPHIE ARCHIVES MUSEE EUROPE ASIE MOYEN ORIENT AFRIQUE AMERIQUE OCEANIE 106ANTHRO1 112CULTU 28 5 438-450 2015 0894-9468 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010065862 10.1080/08949468.2015.1086215 0894-9468 [F B010065862] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010065862 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2015-12-02/010065862.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2015-12-02 2015-12-17 fdi:010065862 fre