Sujet

Group of workers harvesting tea, Greek women [Chakva], between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Légende

Group of workers harvesting tea, [Chakva], between 1905 and 1915. Workers, identified by Prokudin-Gorskii as Greeks, pose while harvesting tea from plants spreading over rolling hills near Chakva, on the east coast of the Black Sea. This region of the Russian Empire, in present day Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, had a significant Greek minority, some families going back many centuries to the Classical and Byzantine eras. 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_455

Model release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

61,6Mo (2,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 36,8cm / 4960 x 4342 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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