In 1979, the photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue donated his entire photographic œuvre to the French State, mandating the Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue, known as the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, to conserve and manage this collection, under the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture.
o 130 albums (format 52 x 36 cm/20 x 14 ins.) containing the original prints with captions, as made or collected by Jacques Henri Lartigue. They also include prints by other photographers whose work he particularly appreciated.
The albums form a chronological sequence, starting in 1880 (with his family’s album) and ending with his death in 1986.
o All the black-and-white and color negatives: prints on glass or film, positive and negative stereoscopic plates, panoramas, autochrome plates and color slides.
o Lartigue’s handwritten diary diary (from 1911 to 1986), sizeable excerpts from which have been published.
o Lartigue’s cameras
The Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue ensures the diffusion of Lartigue’s works by:
- granting rights of reproduction of the photographs (agency role)
- publishing books, catalogues and postcards
- conceiving and hiring out exhibitions
- selling signed or unsigned collector’s prints
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