" As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs.
Born into a prosperous family, from childhood Lartigue acutely observed the social rituals of the upper echelons of society through his photography. The hand-held Kodak camera, first introduced in 1888, granted the young photographer flexibility to capture the fine details of eccentric family members at home, the elaborate social parade in the Bois de Boulogne, on the beach in Normandy and beyond. Classic images of motor cars and high fashion sit alongside previously unpublished photographs from the Lartigue archive.
These images of family beau-monde and demi-monde life are not only evidence of a prodigious talent, but also offer an intimate, adolescent perspective of Belle-Epoque Paris, the world of Proust, Debussy and the Nabis, before the outbreak of the First World War.
At a young age Lartigue mastered the medium of photography : this exploration of his extraordinary childhood is interwoven with a social and cultural portrait of the Belle Epoque. Bonnard and Vuillard used the camera as a reference point for painting, Eugene Atget documented the architecture of the old Paris ahead of its developers, but Lartigue was the first to harness the immediacy of the snapshot, often capturing his subjects mid-gesture as in real life, creating a new visual language for the 20th century. "
132 photographies, documents et dessins, à pleine page et in-texte.
L'ensemble documente la vie heureuse d'une famille bourgeoise entre 1894 et 1914.
.Chronologie 1894-1914
.Liste des personnages photographiés
.Matériel photographique
.Bibliographie
.Index
Londres, Thames and Hudson, 2020, 19 x 24 cm, cartonnage illustré, 192 pages.
9780500021309
TEXTE EN ANGLAIS
librairie couleur du temps, thames and hudson, lartigue, photographie, photographe, automobile, voiture, vie mondaine, mode,
