Morell had come to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted 130 years ago. But, even as he stood amid the painter’s beloved Provençal landscape, he seemed undaunted.

In the century since they were acquired in 1924, two of van Gogh’s archetypal ... he can’t paint them, and if he was a painter he wouldn’t have any,” he wrote. Landscape near the Abbey ...

and ideal subjects to paint. Hanson emphasises Van Gogh's "openness to possibility" at this time, and his feeling, still relatable today, of being a new face in town. "We don't have to hit on our ...