From 6 February to 15 May 2016, the exhibition “Fast Cars and Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue” is on display at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the historic mansion where the famous industrialist and collector Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) once lived. As the title suggests, the 125 […]
From January 22 to April 3, 2016, the exhibition “Lartigue, Life in Color,” which was on display at the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, last summer, was then on display at the Foam museum in Amsterdam, where it was admired by 46,683 visitors. “For me, life and color are inseparable (…) I wouldn’t know how […]
The exhibition “Jacques Henri Lartigue – the World’s Greatest Amateur Photographer” from November 3, 2015, to February 1, 2016, presents 25 images taken between 1900 and 1920 by perhaps the best-known “amateur” in the history of photography, whose works express the excitement, gaiety and allure of the belle époque; their freshness and authenticity inspired many […]
From October 1st to October 30, 2015, this exhibition, curated by Duan Yuting and Martine d’Astier, presents 52 images chosen from the 135 original, large-format, 52-x-36 cm albums by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986). Born in 1984 into a wealthy family of the Parisian bourgeoisie, Lartigue enjoyed a carefree existence from childhood. He never went […]
The exhibition « RIVIERA » was inaugurated on June 5, 2015, at the Art Museum of Türku, Finland, (Turun Taidemuseo). This is the first exhibition of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s photographs in a Finnish museum. The exhibit focuses on Lartigue’s travels to the French Riviera from the 1920s to the 1950s. Unpopulated coastal landcapes from the period […]
Exhibition presented from November 22 to December 24, 2014 Lianzhou Fotofestival The Candy Factory Zhongshan South Road 120, Lianzhou Guangdong, Chine Site Lianzhoufoto Festival 2014 [wp_geo_map]
Lartigue’s work finally travels to Brazil in an exhibit that focuses on two of the artist’s favourite themes : air and water. Lartigue’s zest for life is evident and alternately expressed by both calm and contemplation, and the giddiness that comes from speed and flight, capers and dives: “bubbling life” as he used to say. […]
Following exhibitions in Arles and London, the Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) in Moscow hosts the exhibition ‘Bibi” in the framework of the 2014 photo biennial. The MAMM arts musuem, created in 1996, is an ambitious project housing The Moscow House of Photography and its rich collection of Russian photography, as well as the Rodchenko Art School. […]
Ueda and Lartique shared a lifelong delight in the essence of amateur photography and the sheer joy of taking photographs. Their works transcend differences between Japanese and French culture and pose the same question: What, after all, is the human significance of photography? This exhibition is more than a retrospective devoted to the […]
Pablo Picasso was well aware of photography’s power to communicate. From his early years interested in the medium, he seems above all to have understood the importance of creating a public image, and the ability to sustain a cult of personality. In Cologne, the Ludwig Museum presents an exposition that examines Picasso’s incredible relationship with photography. The exhibition includes portraits, […]
