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A photo of Lartigue's bedroom with a toy plane on the floor
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Jacques Henri Lartigue / 2020 Ministère de la Cul

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Lartigue’s bedroom, 1906
A new reserve by Louise Baring explores Lartigue’s privileged childhood and early occupation versus the backdrop of France’s La Belle Époque, an era of political, industrial and imaginative optimism.

A family album page showing Lartigue sleeping in bed with a cat
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Jacques Henri Lartigue / 2020 Ministère de la Cul

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Lartigue in mattress with his cat Zizi (shutter unveiled by Dudu, the relatives nursemaid), 1904
Lartigue went on to photograph his brother Zissou’s inventions, such as a glider lifting off in a gust of wind, and his cousins racing all-around in dwelling-manufactured go-karts.

A woman falls off a go-kart whilst laughing
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Simone Roussel, Rouzat, 1913
At a youthful age, Lartigue mastered the medium of images using his hand-held Kodak digicam – to start with introduced in 1888 – to harness the immediacy of the snapshot.

A family album page showing beach holiday photographs
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Villerville, Normandy, 1906
He photographed the social parade in the Bois do Boulogne, a significant park on the outskirts of Paris, in which the fashions of the upper echelons of culture have been displayed.

A portrait of a woman in a park wearing an elaborate hat, face veil and thick fur coat
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Régina Badet, Bois de Boulogne, 1911

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Anna la Pradvina, Bois de Boulogne, 1911
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Anna la Pradvina, Bois de Boulogne, 1911
Other topics included a girl in furs attracting a covetous look from a male passer-by the gleaming traces of a racing vehicle winter sports activities in Switzerland and summers on the seashores of Étretat and Trouville, in which, he wrote: ‘Nothing hinders my eyes from roaming, drifting endlessly….’

A racing car zooms past spectators
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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‘The French Grand Prix, Circuit de Dieppe, Normandy, 1912’, as captioned by Lartigue
Lartigue often captured his subjects mid-gesture as in genuine everyday living, developing a new visual language for the 20th Century.

A young man and woman fly sledge down a snow-covered slope
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Zissou and Simone Roussel, St Moritz, 1913
The guide by Louise Baring includes photographs, drawings and diary excerpts, revealing Lartigue’s prodigious talent, but also offering an adolescent viewpoint of Paris right before the outbreak of Environment War A single.

Two of Lartigue's diary showing sketches of scenes and writing
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Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Webpages from Lartigue’s diary from 1913 (left) and 1911 (right)

A sketch of a fashionable lady
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Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue

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A vogue drawing by Lartigue, 1908

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Late in his lifestyle, Lartigue was hailed as just one of the founders of present day pictures.
In 1963, the Museum of Modern-day Art in New York gave an exhibition of Lartigue’s work.
Fellow-photographer Richard Avedon wrote to him soon after looking at the exhibition: “It was one of the most shifting ordeals of my existence.
“You introduced me into your earth, and isn’t really that, immediately after all, the reason of artwork?”

A man in a suit sits in a rubber ring in open water
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Jacques Henri Lartigue

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