Thematic exhibition These photographs of various leaps, feats and expoits, of weird and wonderful flying machines from airships to blimps, of spectacular take-off attempts by Gabriel Voisin, SantosDumont and Louis Blériot, convey the playful, inventive realities of early aviation. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION 87 modern prints / 84 frames 52 frames : 60 x 76 […]
Jacques Henri Lartigue spent time on the beaches of Normandy, the Pays Basque and the Riviera as a young child and remained faithful to them throughout his life. His love of the sea led him to spend more than a third of his life exploring the coast and studying its various facets: from elegance, vacation […]
Thematic exhibition This exhibition records Lartigue’s life on the French Riviera from 1908 to 1980, showing what the area looked like before mass tourism, the beginnings of yachting and beach games in the interwar years. There are also portraits of artists and personalities such as Sacha Guitry, Abel Gance, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and John […]
Thematic exhibition Between 1913 and 1981 Jacques Henri Lartigue stayed in Saint-Moritz, Chamonix, and Megève a dozen or so times. The world of alpine sports had a formative influence on his vision. The skis, sleds, skates, curling, bobsleighs and even propeller-driven sleds flew past and provided a perfect pretext for his visual apology for movement. […]
