Man sitting in courtyard. Arched tower in background

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905

Man sitting in courtyard. Arched tower in background, 1905

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Man sitting in courtyard. Arched tower in background — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915.

Subjects: passageways, men, arches, towers, stone walls.

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