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Lartigue : the boy and the belle époque

Title
Lartigue : the boy and the belle époque / Louise Baring.
Author
Baring, Louise
Publication
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2020.

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Lartigue, Jacques-Henri, 1894-1986.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
Summary
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 Classic images of motor cars and high fashion sit alongside previously unpublished photographs from the Lartigue archive.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.
Subject
  • Lartigue, Jacques-Henri, 1894-1986 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Lartigue, Jacques-Henri, 1894-1986
  • Portrait photography > 19th century > 20th century
  • 21.42 history of photographic art
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 0500021309
  • 9780500021309
OCLC
  • on1103981182
  • SCSB-9723401
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library