Title

Drawbridge on the Vytegra River [Russian Empire], 1909. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Drawbridge on the Vytegra River [Russian Empire], 1909. 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

HRM24A06_032

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License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,0Mb (2,1Mb) / 16,5in x 14,3in / 4960 x 4298 (300dpi)

Keywords

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