Sujet

Village of Farab, Turkmenistan; Railroad station and tracks, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Légende

Village of Farab, Turkmenistan; Railroad station and tracks, between 1905 and 1915. Station on the Chardzhou-Bukhara railroad. Signs on the station building read "FARAB." Farab, a settlement of the urban type, is the centre of the Farab region of Chardzhou Province, Turkmenistan, on the right bank of the Amu Daria [Amu Darya River], 8 km. from Chardzhou. 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.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A05_430

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,1Mo (2,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,7cm / 4960 x 4095 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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