Sujet
Tekin yurts, Bairam-Ali area, Turkmenistan, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.
Légende
Tekin yurts, Bairam-Ali area, Turkmenistan, between 1905 and 1915. A yurt is a portable tent used for housing by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. After conquering Turkestan in the mid 1800s, the Russian government exerted strong pressure on the nomadic peoples to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and settle permanently in villages, towns, and cities. 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
HRM24A06_159
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
61,7Mo (2,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 36,8cm / 4960 x 4351 (300dpi)