The Look of Central Asia
Faces of Central Asia | Scenes from Soviet Tashkent
The new republics of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, and a revived taste for Russian tradition, made the later 1930s a gallery of national types drawn from folkways the atheist state was itself uprooting: a Kirghiz collective farmer, the Kazakh poet Dzhambul, a trick-rider. In Tashkent, photographers recorded change instead: a tea house, old and new transport, a street celebration.
The Faces of Soviet Central Asia
