Title

Front view of a crumbling mosque, with a man standing beside it, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

Front view of a crumbling mosque, with a man standing beside it, Central Asia, between 1905 and 1915. 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_099

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

62.3Mo (3.4Mo) / 42.0cm x 37.1cm / 4960 x 4387 (300dpi)

Keywords

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