Charles Latham's gardens of Italy
Subtitle: from the archives of Country life
By: Helena Attlee ; photographed by Charles Latham.
Contributors: Latham, Charles.
Publisher: Aurum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781845134327
Subjects: Historic gardens -- Italy -- Pictorial works; Historic gardens -- Italy
Genres: Pictorial works
Other titles: Gardens of Italy; Country life.
Description: "In the spring of 1903, Country Life's first staff photographer, Charles Latham, set off from London's Victoria station with his large-format camera and several boxes of fragile glass negatives bound for Rome. He spent the months that followed photographing some of Italy's finest historic gardens. Latham's photographs were immediately acclaimed and the images are characteristic of his work in their exceptional clarity. As a result of the political turmoil that overtook Italy in the nineteenth century, many of the gardens had already fallen into a state of picturesque decrepitude; others, around Florence, had been taken over by English and American expatriates and were in the process of restoration. Today, many of these gardens have vanished, destroyed by social upheaval and war, though a few were painstakingly restored in the post-war years."--Global Books in Print.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.