Scarcity: Architectur al Texts in The Aral Sea Basin
Tyler Putnam Morgan Lewis
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Left Pages: Photographs and and Samples Page 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58
Date, Caption; Credit 2012, Aral Sea; Kat Waters 1900 circa, Ikat sample of Man’s Khalat; Meller 2006, Zarafshan Marsh Bukharan Oasis; Kat Waters 1904, Scholar in Ulan-Beg Madrassah, Bukhara; Gangler 1882, Bukharan design ikat sample 1890, Amu Darya valley, Bukhara region 1872, BukharanTraders in Kokhand Khan robes; Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Russian Imperial Survey 1825, Bukharan wall hanging with silk warp and cotton weft; Meller 1894, Horse Market at Northern gate of Bukhara; credit D Vederensky 1850, Bukhara Ikat Wedding Khatan 16th C., Detail of Khanaqah mosque, Kundal decoration, Bukhara 2010, Photograph of 1916 traditional Bukharan house 1920, Ikat dyed only on Weft thread Khatan sample 2003, Landscape photograph of steppe up river of Bukhara, Cai McAvoy 1980, Aral Sea; credit Kat Waters 1890, St Petersburg machine-printed floral pattern made for Bukharan market; Meller 1885, Painting of ‘noble nomad’; Vassily Werechagin RA 1899, Bukharan Roller printed cotton cloth; Meller 1922, Loom mill Bukhara; Meller 1919, Soviet textile design for distribution throughout the new Soviet Union; Popova 1922, Aerial view of the Ark; Red Army military photograph 1926, Bukharan machine print pattern distributed from Aralsk; Meller 1956, Aralsk, credit Kat Waters 1966, Tashkent machine printed sports fabric; unknown 1969, St Petersburg machine printed fabric of Central Asian cotton pickers; unknown 2010, Sattelite image of Nukus on Amu Darya River; Google Maps 1996, Irrigation canal, Amu Darya basin; Kat Waters 2010, Dessicated Aral Sea with water in Northern half; NASA 2010, Aral Sea; Cai McAvoy
Right Pages: Drawings and Maps
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1853, Map of Aral Sea; Royal Geographical Society 1671, Significant sites and river systems in Bukhara region c. 14th C. Persian map of Bukhara with rivers and neighbourhoods 1982, Plan and section of the ‘ark’, the citadel court of Bukhara 9th C., Plan of Zarang, an early oasis settlement on the Silk Road; Gangler 16th C., Plan of the ‘ark’, the citadel court of Bukhara 1820, Plan of Herat a city based upon the plan of Bukhara 1823, Danish map of Bukhara; Gangler 1842, Plan of Bukhara; Russian Imperial Survey 1843, Plan of Bukhara and Hinterland, Russian Imperial Survey 17th C. CE, Central mosque Bukhara with pool in courtyard 2010, Plan of 1916 Bukharian house 1920, Bukhara Urban fabric 1910, Plan of Old City Bukhara; Gangler 2012, Photograph of South Aral Sea; credit Cai McAvoy 1985, Plan of Old City Bukhara; Gangler 1987, Survey of Bukhara City with neighbourhoods; Tashkent planning authority 1891, Plan of Bukhara with peripheral industrial zone; Gangler 1955, Article on irrigation projects; Daily Star 1976, Bukhara with Soviet periphery; Tashkent planning authority 1965, Plan of Bukhara noting key heritage sites; Bukhara Heritage Commission 1986, Plan of Bukhara noting critical circulation routes; Tashkent planning authority 1948, Poster launching Stalin’s plan for the Transformation of Nature after the 1947 famine 1982, Map showing irrigation zones in Aral Sea Basin 1951, Plan of proposal linking the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea 1986, Irrigation plan for Amu Darya basin 1962, Construction of Korakoram canal in Aral Sea region 2011, Dust storm, Aral Sea region 2008, Satellite photograph of Aral Sea; Nasa 2013, Index; Morgan Lewis and Tyler Putnam
“This truth is in part; not whole” Traditional preface to Islamic texts; a custom originating in Bukhara: ‘the city of learning’