Lartigue buys and moves into a house in Opio, near Grasse.

While in New York, he presents his early 20th-century photos to Charles Rado of the Rapho agency and to John Szarkowski, Director of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, entitled The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue. Publication of a portfolio in Life. His reputation as an outstanding photographer has been established.

Back in New York, he becomes a friend of the photographers Hiro and Richard Avedon. Publication of his "family album."

Publication of Diary of a Century, designed by the photographer Richard Avedon. This book brings public attention to the photographs taken by Lartigue after 1930. A French edition, Instants de ma vie, comes out in 1973.

Lartigue meets David Hockney and Cecil Beaton in London. Beaton’s costume designs for the film My Fair Lady were inspired by a Lartigue photograph taken in 1911.

26 August :Jacques Henri Lartigue is appointed official photographer to mark Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s seven years as president.

First French retrospective of Lartigue’s work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris : Lartigue 8x80. Jacques does photo shoots for fashion and decoration magazines. He takes photographs in Guernesey during the filming of "Adèle H" by François Truffaut with Isabelle Adjani.

June 26: Lartigue signs over his entire photographic output to the French government.