"Ethnoexotica" from around the world on autochrome (1907-1931)

As already noted, in the first third of the 20th century, several global projects focused on systematically capturing images in color using the Autochrome method. The largest was Almert Kahn's project (70,000 color photographs were taken between 1912 and 1932), while the second-largest collection was created by the American magazine National Geographic.

We present to your attention interesting ethnographic photographs, which are disparate in nature and can be viewed as a kind of mosaic.

Indian Chief, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, photographed by Edwin Wisherd, 1927.

A guy in a cowboy outfit, California, 1920s

A Naxi leader in Tibet, photographed by Joseph Rock, circa 1927.

Ethiopian veterans in traditional dress, photographed by Robert Moore, 1930.

Dutch, photographer Stephane Passet, 1910s

Wendish woman (i.e. Lusatian Sorb) in traditional dress, Germany, Hans Hildenbrand, 1931

Residents of Dahomey (now Benin), photographed by Frederic Gadmer, 1920s

Kurdish girls in Iran, photographed by Frederic Gadmer, 1920s

Breton couple in traditional dress, France, photographed by George Chevalier, 1920

Group of Bretons in traditional costumes, photographed by Adrien, between 1907 and 1928.

Sisters Helene and Denise Lauth in Alsace, France, photographed by George Chevalier, 1918.

Moroccans, photograph from the Albert Kahn collection, 1910s

Moroccan children, 1910s

Residents of Ceylon, 1910s

Russian women in traditional dress, Rimsky-Korsakov, between 1908 and 1917