And now to you, modest photographs, to do what you can – very little, I know – to tell everything, explain everything, reveal everything … and above all, that which cannot be photographed. (Journal 1931) This exhibition focuses on the 1920s, the years of Lartigue’s marriage to Madeleine Messager, known as Bibi -Lartigue’s first wife and […]
Thematic exhibition « Lartigue, Life in Color » offers viewers a magnificent opportunity to discover an unknown aspect of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s work. Until now, almost none of his photographs in color have been shown. They are accessible here for the first time, giving a new perspective on the vitality, poetry and enchantment of his work. […]
Thematic exhibition Dating from between 1902 and 1913, these first photographs, taken by Jacques Henri Lartigue as a child and adolescent, show him both contributing to and witnessing the inventive, playful spirit of his family members as they build airplanes, bobsleds, practice jumping, race on their bikes and fight in the water. The exhibition also […]
Thematic exhibition The first car races in 1905, battles of elegance and fine coachwork; family outings in the convertible… This exhibition presents various aspects of the early days of the automobile, which features prominently throughout Lartigue’s photographs. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION 95 modern prints / 94 frames 35 frames : 35 x 50 cm 30 […]
Thematic exhibition The exhibition consists of 122 portraits and self-portraits made between 1899 and 1983, including family photos, spontaneous images of anonymous passers-by or such celebrities as Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Picasso, François Truffaut, David Hockney, and Dirk Bogarde. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION 122 modern prints / 109 frames 108 frames : 53,5 […]
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. […]
