“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. […]
Through February 21, 2016, 20 works by Jacques Henri Lartigue are on display at the Grand Palais, part of the retrospective “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez – Louis Vuitton,” which retraces the brand’s journey from 1854 to today. Spread across nine rooms in the Grand Palais’s Salon d’honneur, the exhibition, organized thematically, juxtaposes elements from Vuitton’s archives, […]
Born in 1883, Gaston-Louis Vuitton, Louis Vuitton’s grandson, not only participated in his grandfather’s trunk making business, he was also a passionate world traveler who might easily have caught a glimpse of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s slender silhouette while in France on one of his numerous trips there. Both men were lovers of new frontiers; while Gaston-Louis travelled abroad, Lartigue, […]
This photograph was taken by Jacques Henri Lartigue on October 5th, 1978, on the Trocadero esplanade, in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Vuitton brand the following year.
