Title

Mugan Steppe: Georgian woman in a folk costume, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Mugan Steppe: Georgian woman in a folk costume, between 1905 and 1915. Georgian woman seated in the shade of a tree in the Mugan Steppe, Azerbaijan. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) was a pioneer in colour photography which he used to document early 20th-century Russia and her empire, including the vanishing way of life of tribal peoples along the Silk Route in Central Asia. In a railway-carriage darkroom provided by Czar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky used the three-colour photography process to record traditional costumes and occupations, churches and mosques - many now Unesco World Heritage sites - as well as modernisation in agriculture, industry and transport.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A05_369

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

61,7Mo (2,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 36,8cm / 4960 x 4350 (300dpi)

Keywords

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