It's hard to believe that the photos were taken on the streets of Uzbekistan 100 years ago. Whether it is the saturation, vividness, fineness, brightness of the colors, it is amazing. The author is Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, one of the godfathers of color photography.
A man at the Bukhara Bazaar is frying meat, next to a pile of traditional Uzbek cakes
Samarkand, carpenters remove bark from newly cut logs.
A group of students from a religious school in Samarkand
A woman in a burqa was outside her house
Downtown Samarkand
The Palace of the Emir in Bukhara, a guard in the photo.
The Minister of the Interior of Bukhara himself, holding a sword in his hand.
Cloth merchants, also Samarkand. Cotton, wool, silk – it was a good profession at the time.
Sergey Prokudin-Golsky is not only known for this oriental series of photographs. The master took photographs all over Russia, and his photo collection is exhibited today in many museums around the world.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Sergey Golsky (30 August 1863 – 27 September 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography. The trichromatic principle photography method he developed documented many aspects of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 2000, his photographic negatives were digitized, and hundreds of high-quality color images were produced by algorithms, recreating the landscape of Russia and its neighbors more than a century ago.
Color photography is a long-standing thing today, but more than a hundred years ago, color photographs were still a rarity. Before Kodak launched its famous Kodak Krom film, there were many predecessors who dedicated themselves to leaving color photographs, and the Russian Sergei Gorsky was one of the founders, and his research on color photosensitivity and tricolor photography promoted the development of color photography.