Cowboys & Indians

ITALIAN CONNECTION

BEAUTIFUL BAY-COLORED HORSES CANTER IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF TUSCANY. Riders with rough hands and proud faces work together in a dreamlike haze of dust, serious but with a sense of ease well-captured by the camera. Gray long-horned cattle lumber into rugged corrals. There’s a steely quality to the images, like the cowboys themselves — the celebrated butteri horsemen of Italy, who trace their history back 2,500 years to the pre-Roman era of the Etruscans.

Get an intimate glimpse inside their world at , a photography exhibit by Gabrielle Saveri

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