This volume addresses new theoretical approaches in visual and memory studies that prompted to rethink of the photography of Russian Turkestan of the nineteenth

This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the

A survey of the social, political, economic and artistic development of photography in Central Asia from its inception in the mid 19th century to the 1917 Bolsh

In Samarkand, Khiva, Bukhara and Tashkent, Dominic Ambrose takes a journey to the sources of the Silk Road. These photographs were taken in the late 1990s at ma

A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many photographed here for the first time Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central