"McCullin, 90, said this show and one final trip to the Vatican to photograph more statues would be his swansong. He told the Guardian: I'm too old to work now. After 60-odd years, I'm slightly tired of it all, really. I'm going to do this one last visit to the Vatican. And then I'm going to basically give up photography because I'm just simply physically too old. Your body, in a way, has the final say."
"When Bruce died [in 1989], I was at a kind of crossroads in my life. I had this flashback of Bruce and me in this Roman town, so I rang my publisher and I said, I'd like to do a book about Roman cities. They didn't seem very enthusiastic about the idea, but they gave me quite a small advance and off I went."
Sir Don McCullin is revered for extraordinary black-and-white images documenting conflict, humanitarian crises and postwar Britain. An exhibition at the Holburne museum in Bath, Don McCullin: Broken Beauty, presents photographs of Roman sculptures taken during visits to major museums. The images have not been shown previously in the UK. McCullin, aged 90, intends one final trip to the Vatican to photograph additional statues and considers this exhibition and that visit his swansong because of physical limits and advancing age. His interest in Roman statuary began after travels in North Africa with Bruce Chatwin and led to a published book. The sculpture photographs are displayed alongside his well-known conflict work from Vietnam, Cyprus and Northern Ireland.
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