Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Asia, Central, Asia, Central

Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz,…, Asia, Central, Asia, Central, 1905

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Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, standing on a carpet at the entrance to a yurt, dressed in traditional clothing and jewelry — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915.

Subjects: clothing & dress, uzbeks, structures, yurts, asia.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.