Fishing nets drying, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.
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Fishing nets drying, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

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Fishing nets drying, [Italy/South of France?], between 1905 and 1915. Advertising notices read 'Bière Rubens' and 'American Drug-Store - English Chemist'. 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.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A05_477

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