EU: Medresi seinakaunistus Samarkandis, 1960 (1960)
1960 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The decorated wall of a madrasah in Samarkand, captured in 1960. Madrasahs of this kind, faced with glazed tilework, were built across the city during and after the Timurid period and remain central to Samarkand's historic core.
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