“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 […]
“I would like to capture everything, even the unattainable,” Jacques Henri Lartigue wrote in his journal. From September 29th to November 26th, 33 highly personal photographs are presented in “Jacques Henri Lartigue Photographer, Time rediscovered” at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, in the heart of a neo-Renaissance mansion belonging to a noble family. […]
Dani Lartigue, the only son of Jacques Henri Lartigue and Madeleine Messager (better known as Bibi), would have turned 96 on August 23, 2017. He died Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Saint-Tropez, where he had lived for several decades. He was a beloved figure there, a painter who created a charming butterfly museum he cared […]
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 […]
On the back of page 18 in his album from 1903, Lartigue noted a stunning discovery. Having experimented with his first camera, which required a great deal of light and therefore necessitated a long exposure time, he writes in the caption: “Robert, Zissou, Louis… and I, sitting in front of them while the lens is […]
To mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, Télérama magazine published a series of special issues that plunge readers into the heart of 1913, reporting on what the French population experienced during the carefree period just before Europe encountered the barbarity of war. Each week during the summer of 2013, Télérama […]
Le Palais Lumière in Evian presents an exhibition about artistic expressions of love, how it appears and how it evolves. Romain Gary once said : “Love is like going on an adventure without a map or a compass, only caution will get you lost.” True to these words, the exhibition presents a bold selection of […]
