Sujet

Lau-Dzhen-Dzhau's house, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Légende

Lau-Dzhen-Dzhau's house, Chakva, between 1905 and 1915. Home of Chinese foreman Lau-Dzhen-Dzhau at a tea farm and processing plant in Chakva, a small town just north of Batumi. The semi-tropical climate of the Black Sea coast in modern-day Georgia was ideal for growing tea. 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_058

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

70,0Mo (4,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 41,8cm / 4960 x 4935 (300dpi)

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