In 2006, the French Tennis Foundation and the Donation Lartigue organized an exhibit of Lartigue’s sports photographs entitled “L’art du fugitive – tennis et mouvement 1905 -1929.” Eight years later, as part of commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the First World War, the FFT presents “Lignes de Front – le tennis en 14-18,” an exhibition paying […]
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 […]
A lens shifts into focus; it is blurry before and after. So lovely at the moments just before and just after; too precise once the camera is perfectly focused. Beauty is destroyed by precision. Journal, June 21, 1926, Paris.
