Caucasus in Early Color Photographs
Caucasus in Early Color Photographs presents a rare visual record of the landscapes, cities, and peoples of the Caucasus at the beginning of the twentieth century. The volume brings together a carefully curated selection of early color photographs documenting a region long known for its cultural diversity and dramatic geography.
The images depict historic towns, mountain villages, religious monuments, and everyday life across the Caucasus. They capture architectural traditions, regional dress, and local customs at a moment when the region was undergoing profound social and political change.
Many of the photographs originate from the pioneering work of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, whose photographic expeditions across the Russian Empire produced one of the earliest large-scale collections of color photographs in the world.
Edited and curated by Maksim Pleshkov, the volume presents these images as historical documents that illuminate the cultural landscapes and visual history of the Caucasus in the early twentieth century.