Along with our wishes for a happy new year, we are delighted to share this photograph, which will be shown in 2017 in several exhibitions organized in collaboration with the Lartigue Donation, including “J. H. Lartigue: Images of a Floating World,” organized by Florian Rodari, which will be presented at the Sang Sang Foundation in […]
From January 13 to March 13, 2016, the Photo-Cinema Gallery at the Institut Lumière in Lyon presents the exhibition “Chic, le sport!,” a selection of photographs on Lartigue’s “sporting life.” The exhibition is both an homage to Lartigue, a keen sportsman whose unposed photographs capture the joyous exuberance of such amateur sports as racing, […]
Jacques Lartigue became interested in automobiles at a very young age. In 1905, when Jacques was 11, his family went to Auvergne, where he saw the Coupe Gordon-Bennett, his first race. From that time on, he photographed cars in movement, and also spent time drawing various automobiles and making sketches from his photos. Little by […]
It’s nearly impossible to think of Lartigue’s photographs without this particular one coming to mind; it is often referred to simply as The racecar, making it a sort of Lartigue « logo ». The image embodies the characteristics inherent to Lartigue’s work, such as movement, vitality, modernism and beauty. Lartigue’s interest in automobile racing began […]
Mediterranean Sea, September 12th, 1927. Having a motor car in this landscape is magical… the drive to Cannes along the narrow, deserted little road that follows the coastline via Golfe Juan is wonderful. A motionless sea falling asleep in the sunset with its eyes still open. Diaries, Cap d’Antibes, May 1921.
