The exhibition La Femme sur le rivage (Woman on the Shore), presented at the Villa Brunes in Dinard, which closed on September 17, was a hugh success, welcoming a total of 18,955 visitors. The attendance far exceeded the expectations in Dinard, the town that created the exhibition in partnership with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, […]
“Lartigue à La Baule 1913-1929,” an exhibition organized by the City Hall of La Baule at the Bernard Boesch Museum from 1 July to 1 October 2017, unveils an unknown aspect panorama of Lartigue’s work. Although he regularly stayed in La Baule in 1913, 1915, 1929 and 1936, his visits there and the photographic witnesses […]
From May 20 to September 17, 2017, the exhibition « Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), La Femme sur le rivage » at the Villa Les Roches Brunes in Dinard, Brittany, unveils some one hundred photographs full of joie de vivre that exemplify the elegance, sensuality and sense of freedom of life on the beach. Organized around eight […]
Jacques Henri Lartigue was just nineteen years old when, on vacation in St. Moritz in 1913, he experienced winter sports for the first time; from the start, he was enchanted. Lartigue, who would later be referred to as eccentric for “going towards the cold weather in wintertime,” soon discovered Chamonix and Megève, and photographed many […]
Through January 8, 2017, photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue are shown in the exhibition “Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present” at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Driven to freeze action and portray what the naked eye alone cannot see, sports photographers have an important place in the history of photography. […]
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, […]
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 […]
For the fourth year in a row, Hermès has chosen a theme to inspire its collection and events. This year”s theme is “A Sporting Life.” This volume was co-published by the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, Actes Sud Publisher and Hermès. Photographs selected from Lartigue’s prolific body of work capture both the joyous exuberance of amateur […]
Nice, May 1921. Lartigue’s photograph depicts French tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen in training, in spring 1921. Tragically, Lenglen, nicknamed “La Divine” (the divine one), won 31 championship titles between 1914 and 1926, when she turned professional. She died tragically in 1938 at the age of 39, shortly after being diagnosed with leukemia. Lartigue recalled, […]
