“Agnès b recalled a discussion we’d had about Lartigue some twenty years ago… Now she is hosting an exhibition that permits a new understanding of the photographer whose work she loves so.” Presented at the galerie du jour – agnès b. from November 9 to January 7, 2018, this exhibition provides an opportunity to reveal […]
Although Lartigue is celebrated for his black-and-white work, a recent exhibition also revealed his mastery of color, surprisingly sensitive and fresh, and enriched our understanding of his work. First presented at the Maison européenne de la photography, Paris, then at Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, Lartigue, Life in Color will be in display from October 28, 2017, […]
The exhibition La Femme sur le rivage (Woman on the Shore), presented at the Villa Brunes in Dinard, which closed on September 17, was a hugh success, welcoming a total of 18,955 visitors. The attendance far exceeded the expectations in Dinard, the town that created the exhibition in partnership with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, […]
“Lartigue à La Baule 1913-1929,” an exhibition organized by the City Hall of La Baule at the Bernard Boesch Museum from 1 July to 1 October 2017, unveils an unknown aspect panorama of Lartigue’s work. Although he regularly stayed in La Baule in 1913, 1915, 1929 and 1936, his visits there and the photographic witnesses […]
Just in time for Roland Garros 2017, the Paris gallery Le Voleur d’Images has organized an exhibition of photos of tennis players in motion by Jacques Henri Lartigue from May 24 to September 15, 2017. Lartigue, a sports lover who himself proved to be a gifted tennis player, had a passion for capturing people and things in […]
From May 20 to September 17, 2017, the exhibition « Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), La Femme sur le rivage » at the Villa Les Roches Brunes in Dinard, Brittany, unveils some one hundred photographs full of joie de vivre that exemplify the elegance, sensuality and sense of freedom of life on the beach. Organized around eight […]
Delage Automobile. Dieppe Circuit, A.C.F. Grand Prix, Le Tréport, June 26, 1912. Taken in 1912, when Jacques Lartigue was only 18 years old, the photograph of a Delage automobile at the French Grand Prix, on the circult near Dieppe on June 26, 1912, was one of the first visual records of speed. While at the […]
Jacques Henri Lartigue was just nineteen years old when, on vacation in St. Moritz in 1913, he experienced winter sports for the first time; from the start, he was enchanted. Lartigue, who would later be referred to as eccentric for “going towards the cold weather in wintertime,” soon discovered Chamonix and Megève, and photographed many […]
Lartigue’s photographs are permeated with the nonchalance and poetry of seaside towns on the French Riviera, in Normandy and on the Basque coastline, where he found the ideal theatre for capturing fleeting moments and for exploring the brevity of happiness and the fragility of existence. These images by Lartigue are included in the exhibition “Tous […]
At the Bibliothèque national de France, France’s national library (François Mitterrand site) from October 18, 2016, to February 26, 2017, Avedon’s France, Old World, New Look tells the story of American photographer Richard Avedon’s deep attachment to France. The exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces, some dating back to the 1940s, with a room dedicated to […]
