John Heseltine, English travel photographer has
spent two decades taking pictures the length and
breadth of Italy, building up a comprehensive library
of images for books and magazines.
When a commission is completed, or on one of his
visits to do more personal work, he pores over maps
of whatever area he is in, seeking out the remains
of old Roman roads – some plain for all to
see, some barely visible, some long buried. When
he finds them, he makes the very personal and atmospheric
black and white images that fills "Road s to
Rome", John Heseltine's new book of photographs
available from Amazon.com |
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Heseltine’s love affair with Italy is in
a time-honoured tradition. From the eighteenth
century on, the British have admired the art and
taste of the classical world above all others,
and no aristocrat’s education was complete
without taking the “Grand Tour”. Its
highlight was Italy, with its rich store of antiquities
and ancient monuments. More about Roads
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