Cedyda Akas, ed., Au pays sacré des anciens Turcs et des Mongols (Eski Türklerin Kutsal Ülkesinde), Istamboel 1995. Softcover 24,5 x 28,5 cm. 168 pag. met zwart-wit foto's. Tekst in Frans en Turks.Text in Turkish and French Goed exemplaar, enige gebruikssporen. Good copy, some slight wear.

ALLSHOUSE, R.H.(ed./introd.), Photographs for the Tsar  The pioneering photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by the Tsar, New York 1980. Hard cover 22,5 x 35 cm. 216 pag. fully illustrated in colour.

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The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and work of Russia's diverse population.  Around 1907 Prokudin-Gorskii envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advancements that had been made in color photography to systematically document the Russian Empire. Through such an ambitious project, his ultimate goal was to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his "optical color projections" of the vast and diverse history, culture, and modernization of the empire. Outfitted with a specially equipped railroad car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, and in possession of two permits that granted him access to restricted areas and cooperation from the empire's bureaucracy. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, going first to Norway and England before settling in France. By then, the tsar and his family had been murdered and the empire that Prokudin-Gorskii so carefully documented had been destroyed. His unique images of Russia on the eve of revolution--recorded on glass plates--were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1948 from his heirs."

BRAKEL,B., Prokujin-Gorkij true colours Trichromatische fotografie/trichromatic photography, harderwijk 2008. Hardcover 20,5 x 21 cm 94 pag met 70 afb. in kleur. Text in English and Russian.

"Prokudin-Gorskij was een echte vakman die eind jaren tachtig van de negentiende eeuw in Berlijn zijn kennis over kleurenfotografie opdeed en naar Rusland bracht. Tussen 1905 en 1915 reist hij onder vaak moeilijke omstandigheden door het uitgestrekte Russische Rijk. Hij volgt de Wolga, reist naar de Kaukasus en Centraal-Azië."

KURBANOV, S., SAMARKAND Caught in Time, Reading 1992. Hard cover 21,5 x 27 cm 159 pag. with 128 photo's. [29,50]

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First settled in the sixth or seventh century BC, Samarkand has known periods of prosperity and decline - its craftsmen traded and settled as far afield as the Chinese borders, and its great military leader Tamerlane fought wars against Persia, Syria and India. Samarkand is best known as a centre of Islamic learning and architecture. The photographs collected here were taken during the key period from 1871 to the 1890s, following the Tsarist conquest of 1868, but before the Soviet rule which resulted in the destruction of many Islamic landmarks.