Others served as foundations for Romanesque churches that followed such as the cathedral at Vaison-la-Romaine (Vasio Vocontiorum).
Many Roman buildings were used and sometimes modified in the Middle Ages. It is difficult to draw a precise end to the Gallo-Roman era. I have evolved a photographic printing technique using multiple toners including gold, to add a classical feel to the pictures since it occurred to me that the images would look best using a photographic printing style reminiscent of early travel photography
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I often include cars, telephone poles, nuclear power plants, movie posters, etc. Although my style references these early masters, my photographs are utterly contemporary. Baldus photographed several Roman sites in the mid-19th century for the Commission des Monuments Historiques. I have been inspired by the work of the great French documentary-style photographers, Edouard Baldus and Eugene Atget. The Maison Carrée in Nîmes (Nemausus) and the Temple of Augustus and Livia in Vienne (Vienna) are two of the finest Roman temples in the world the theatre in Orange (Arausio), still in use, is the best-preserved Roman theatre. Our hotel in Fréjus (Forum Julii) had a Roman column in the courtyard where we ate breakfast each morning. Numerous Gallo-Roman towns evolved into modern French ones, such as Aix-en-Provence (called Aquae Sextiae by the Romans), where Roman baths are now the site of therapeutic spas. Many modern buildings literally sit on Roman foundations. The old arenas hold bullfights derived from the Roman blood sports. Many Roman roads and bridges are still in use, sometimes in modified form. My photographs refer to these connections.
Roman civilization forms much of the foundation for western civilization by way of engineering, language, law and customs. I am interested in depicting anachronism–the ways in which contemporary cultures collide with their past. I began actively photographing Roman remains in southern France four years ago.
Visual traces of all of this remain throughout the region, which was referred to by the Romans simply as Provincia, the first and most important province. They planted olive trees, established vineyards and quarried limestone. The Romans loved Provence and built roads, aqueducts, arenas, baths and towns throughout. I was already interested in Roman history and culture due to my four-year study of Latin in high school, where we read Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, a chronicle of the Roman conquest of ancient France. In my visits to southern France over the years I have been drawn to the Roman ruins.
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