
Sujet
Melon vendor, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.
Légende
Melon vendor, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Dressed in traditional Central Asian attire, a vendor of locally grown melons poses at his stand in the marketplace of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan. 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_360
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
62,3Mo (2,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 37,2cm / 4960 x 4389 (300dpi)