Richard Avedon

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue, born in 1894 in Courbevoie, was a Camera -as a boy from his father in the beginning of the 20Th Century .

Lartigue in his bathtub with his hydro-glider, 1904

He began the recordings of his life, including snapshots, his parents, his bedroom, his nanny, Dudu throws a ball high in the air; his brother jump out of a Boat .

Lartigue bedrooms, 1906

A new book by Louise Baring Lartigue privileged childhood and early career, studied against the background of the French La Belle Époque era, an era of political, commercial, and creative optimism.

Lartigue in bed with his cat Zizi (shutter released by Dudu, The Family nanny), 1904

Lartigue went on to photograph his brother Zissou inventions, including a glider lift off in a gust of wind, and his cousins race around in home-made go-karts.

Simone Roussel, Rouzat, 1913

at a young age, Lartigue dominated The Medium of photography to make with his hand-held Kodak Camera , the First introduction in the year 1888-that the immediacy of the Snapshot .

Villerville , Normandy, 1906

He photographed The Social parade in the Bois do Boulogne, a large park on The Outskirts of Paris, where the fashion were from the upper echelons of society.

Régina Badet, Bois de Boulogne, 1911, Anna la Pradvina, Bois de Boulogne, 1911

in Other subjects, the woman in the fur pulls out a covetous glance of a male passers-by; the shiny lines of a Racing Car ; Winter Sports in Switzerland; and the summer of my hinder on the beach of Etretat and Trouville, where he wrote: "Nothing eyes from roaming, drifting without end. '

'The French Grand Prix , Circuit de Dieppe, in Normandy, 1912', so titled by Lartigue

Lartigue is often captured his subjects in mid-gesture as in Real Life , create a new visual language for the 20Th Century .

Zissou and Simone Roussel, St Moritz, 1913

The Book by Louise Baring photographs, drawings and diary includes extracts, revealed Lartigue's prodigious talent, but also with a youthful perspective of Paris, before the outbreak of the First World War .

Pages from Lartigue's diary from the years 1913 (left) and 1911 (right), A fashion drawing by Lartigue, 1908

Late in his life, Lartigue was celebrated As One of the founders of modern photography.

in 1963, The Museum of Modern Art in New York has an exhibition of Lartigue work.

a Fellow photographer Richard Avedon wrote to him after visiting The Exhibition : "It was One of The Most Moving Experiences of My Life .

"you brought me into your world, and not that, After All , is the purpose of art?"

Zissou in The Pool Rouzat, 1911

Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque, published by Thames & Hudson.

photos courtesy of Jacques Henri Lartigue / 2020 Ministère de la Culture - France/AAJ HL

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