Title

Gagra: from the wharf, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Gagra: from the wharf, between 1905 and 1915. Boathouse and mast by the shore of the Black Sea. The town of Gagra is situated at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. Its subtropical climate made Gagra (in modern Abkhazia/Georgia) a popular health resort in Imperial Russian and Soviet times. 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_471

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License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,4Mb (5,4Mb) / 16,5in x 15,4in / 4960 x 4612 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings library Asia house houses resort mast color Georgia location century boathouse Library of Congress Colour Western Asia 1900s 1910s 20th century TGN outside photograph health resort Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Mikhaylovich Abkhazia Congressional Library Heritage Art Glass negatives still image Color separation negatives Meeting of Frontiers Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Abkhazian A.S.S.R.