Irrigation Canal (Aryk) in the Murgab Estate

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Turkmenistan

Irrigation Canal (Aryk) in the Murgab Estate, Turkmenistan, 1905

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Irrigation Canal (Aryk) in the Murgab Estate — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Turkmenistan).

Subjects: turkmenistan, brickwork, plants, stairways, bodies of water.

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

Original Russian caption: Irrigation canal (aryk) in the Murgab Estate.