At the Bibliothèque national de France, France’s national library (François Mitterrand site) from October 18, 2016, to February 26, 2017, Avedon’s France, Old World, New Look tells the story of American photographer Richard Avedon’s deep attachment to France. The exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces, some dating back to the 1940s, with a room dedicated to […]
In 1962, Lartigue sailed to America for the first time; fascinated, he even hoped to settle there. Poor and free, Jacques and Florette chose a freighter that would take them to Los Angeles. From there, they planned to discover the California desert, but due to problems with space on the boat, they were forced to stop […]
“Ever since I was small, I have had a sort of illness: all the things that amaze me eventually fade from memory,” stated Jacques-Henri Lartigue (Courbevoie, 1894–Nice, 1986) in his diary in 1965. Passionate about life yet troubled by the temporality of things and the fragility of memory, Lartigue spent 80 years recording thousands of fleeting moments […]
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 […]
