Amateur – Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue

Lartigue curated by novelist William Boyd

From June 8th to August 9th, the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London presents “The Blink of an Eye,” revealing Lartigue’s world through the eyes of British author William Boyd, a fervent admirer of Lartigue and author of “An English in the Tropics” or “The Many Lives of Amory Clay” (a dazzling portrait of a photographer). […]

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Jacques Henri Lartigue, the invention of an artist

How does one explain the fact that Jacques Henri Lartigue suddenly became one of the icons of 20th-century photography? In his essay, Kevin Moore reviews Lartigue’s background and the process that established him as a myth, thus putting an end to a more simplistic, naive view of the artist’s work. Lartigue is not, as commonly […]