Colorful photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky, taken at the beginning of the 20th century

One and a half thousand photographs of Indian tribes taken at the beginning of the 20th century

Edward Sheriff Curtis is an American photographer who, in the early 20th century, studied the life of North American Indians with enthusiasm. In total, he took several thousand photographs, which captured the life of the indigenous population of the American continent, in addition, he created a detailed description of food, housing, clothing, rituals and customs of the Indians, wrote many biographical sketches about the traditions and history of Indian tribes

A look into the past: color photographs of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century

A Russian photographer, a chemist by education, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky remained in history as the author of the most magnificent photographs of the Russian Empire in 1909-1912. Sergei Mikhailovich used a complex method of shooting with the help of several plates, as a result of which he obtained color photographs - almost magic for that time

Underworld: 23 photographs of people who were brought before the law at the beginning of the 20th century

“Do not renounce your wallet and prison” - this expression comes to mind when you see these archival photographs of convicts. Behind each photograph is someone's broken fate, someone's life that didn't work out, someone's tragedy. And today, looking at the photographs of these people, one can only guess what they were guided by when they went to the crimes

Retro ethnographic photographs about the life and life of foreigners at the beginning of the 20th century (part 2)

Foreigners in the Russian Empire were a special category of subjects and differed from the rest of the population of the empire both in methods of government and in rights. In everyday life, this term was applied to all Russian subjects of non-Slavic origin, and at the legislative level, only to ethnic groups strictly defined in the law (by the way, Tatars, Mordovians, Estonians were not counted among foreigners). In this review, old photos about the life and life of foreigners in Russia

Unique photographs taken in Afghanistan in the middle of the 20th century

In the 1950s, liberal reforms began in Afghanistan, thanks to which the country embarked on a development path similar to the European one. But everything was not easy - in a feudal and impoverished country, a confrontation arose between the left proletariat, which followed the intelligentsia, and dark radical Islamic conservatives. But it was at that time that the veil was removed from Afghan women for the first time