In the Focus of the Epochs: To the History of Visual Representation of the Life of Kazakhs of the Steppe region and Russian Turkestan (the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries)
В фокусе эпох: к истории визуальной репрезентации жизни казахов Степного края и Русского Туркестана (рубеж XIX–XX столетий)
Mukanova G.K. Kassymova D.B.
March 2023Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2023#18Issue 1320 - 329 pp.
The location of the Steppe Region, the area of residence of Kazakhs in the late Imperial period, in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, was the object of attention of photographers. This chronological stage has absorbed the historical layers of socio-economic reforms carried out by administration in the environment of the nomadic economy area and accompanied by cultural vectors. Photography in the triad: craft, business and art gradually entered the measured life of the steppe people in order to reflect material and spiritual values, ideological foundations and behavioral patterns. Visualization in retrospect is valuable both as a source and as a fact of the co–creation of the master and his nature in the flow of time and space. Russian Turkestan, adjacent to the Steppe, experienced a similar influence of intercultural adaptation, although clerical pressure was quite strong here. The history of the “implantation” of photography into the Kazakh society is certainly informative in terms of reconstruction, based on archives, personalities, as well as the formation of interest among the Genghisids, students. Overcoming stagnation as a social phenomenon in the Kazakh environment is obvious at the beginning of the 20th century, through the lens of a camera. Copyright
cultural adaptation , history , Kazakhs , late Imperial , passepartout , photo , Russian , Turkestan , visualization
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