«Lartigue in wonder»
« Ever since I was little, I’ve suffered from the fact that all the delightful things in life eventually fade from my memory » comments Lartigue in his 1965 diary. Caught between delightful daily experiences and a flagging memory, passionnate about life but pained when faced with the transcient nature of things, it didn’t take [...]
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“Le Palais Lumière” in Evian presents an exhibition of artistic expressions on love and how it appears and evolves. Romain Gary once said : “Love is like going on an adventure without a map or a compass, only caution will get you lost.” True to these words, the exhibition presents a bold selection of [...]
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From May 26th to September 24th, 2012 at Centre Pompidou-Metz 1917 addresses the theme of artistic creation in wartime, on the scale of that one “impossible year” [1] during which the world floundered in devastating conflict. This vast multidisciplinary exhibition provides an instant view of every field of creativity during this year of [...]
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Jacques Henri Lartigue’s love for the coast, or for the seashore, is obvious when browsing through the one hundred and thirty albums of photographs that he took throughout his lifetime. As a child, he spent time on the beaches of Biarritz, Trouville and the French Riviera and was awed by the subtle, yet intense encounter [...]
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