Rite of passage Jacques Henri Lartigue was not destined to be a war hero. Up until his enlistment in the auxiliary services in 1916, his journal entries convey a sense of guilt for his happiness during troubled times. In August 1914, for instance, he wrote : « We’re as happy as can be here in […]
Paris : « The war is far, far away… » Everyday life was disrupted by war — bombings are a prime example — but it did not seem to affect Jacques’ Parisian social life. He made reference to Paris in his January 1915 diary entry : « War : luckily it”s not as big of […]
Misunderstanding Jacques Henri Lartigue never experienced war firsthand; rather, he observed it from afar. The discrepancy between what he imagined war to be and its gruesome reality is troubling. Rather than attending school, Jacques was tutored at home. Hence, he was never exposed to the widespread belligerent and vindictive propaganda in French schools during […]
« August 1st 1914: General mobilisation is declared » Jacques Henri Lartigue was on holiday with close friends and family at the family estate in Rouzat in August 1914 when he heard that war had been declared. At first, he and his brother Zissou were not worried, since they were both exempt from military service. Life […]
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 […]
The exhibition 1917 addresses the theme of artistic creation in wartime, on the scale of a single “impossible year “¹ when the world floundered in endless, devastating conflict. This vast, multidisciplinary exhibition multidisciplinary exhibition provides an overview of every field of creativity during this year of World War I. It asks what the precise context of […]
