Title

Passage of the Dead: detail above entrance, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Passage of the Dead: detail above entrance, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. The Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 11th-15th and 19th centuries. 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_464

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,2Mb (2,7Mb) / 16,5in x 13,7in / 4960 x 4103 (300dpi)

Keywords

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