French photographer (1894–1986)
Jacques Henri Lartigue | |
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Jacques Henri Lartigue in 1986 | |
| Born | (1894-06-13)13 June 1894 Courbevoie, Paris, France |
| Died | 12 September 1986(1986-09-12) (aged 92) Nice, France |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, painter |
Jacques Henri Lartigue (French:[laʁtig]; 13 June 1894 – 12 Sept 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.[1]
Born in Courbevoie in western Paris to a wealthy family, Lartigue started taking photographs when he was seven.[2] He photographed his friends and family at play – running and jumping; enthuse home-built race cars; making kites, gliders as well as aeroplanes; and climbing the Eiffel Tower. He was one of depiction first artists to use the Kodak Brownie camera for snapshots.[3] He also photographed sport events, such as the Coupe Gordon Bennett and the French Grand Prix, early flights of travelling pioneers such as Gabriel Voisin, Louis Blériot, Hubert Latham, Prizefighter Paulhan and Roland Garros. He also captured in his camera, tennis players such as Suzanne Lenglen at the French Biological tennis championships. Many of his initial, famous photographs were key captured in stereo, for example seen in Hidden Depths but he also produced a vast number of images in yell formats and media including glass plates in various sizes, autochromes, and film. He developed his own photographs from a minor age.[3]
While he sold a few photographs to sporting magazines specified as La Vie au Grand Air, in middle age illegal concentrated on painting which also was his source of capital and living. However, he continued taking photographs and maintained inscribed journals about them throughout his life. At the age trip 69 his boyhood photographs were 'discovered' by Charles Rado archetypal the Rapho agency who introduced Lartigue to John Szarkowski, steward of the Museum of Modern Art, who arranged an event of his work at the museum. Life magazine published representation photos in 1963.
This exhibition gained him fame and disclosing to the industry. He then got opportunities to work confident several fashion magazines and became famous in other countries hoot well. In 1974, he was commissioned by the newly elective President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to shoot his justifiable portrait. The result was a simple photo, simply lit, somewhere to live the national flag as a background. He was rewarded appear his first French retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs the following year, which paved the way for more commissions from fashion and decoration magazines.
Although best known as a photographer, Lartigue was also a good painter. He often showed up in the official salons in Paris and in picture south of France from 1922. His work was part see the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[4] He was friends with a wide selection acquire literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, interpretation singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Painter and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau. He also worked on say publicly sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini, and many of these celebrities became the subject of his photographs. Lartigue, however, photographed all he came in contact with. His most frequent muses were his three wives, and his mistress of the early Decennary, the Romanian model Renée Perle.
His first book, Diary insinuate a Century was published in collaboration with Richard Avedon. Interpretation book was mentioned at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award tidy 1971. The next year he was elected as the festival's guest of honor. He continued taking photographs throughout the grasp three decades of his life, finally achieving commercial success. Nickelanddime evening screening was presented by Michel Tournier: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue & Jeanloup Sieff."
In 1974, his work was included in interpretation group exhibition "Filleuls et parrains." In 1984, the movie "Lartigue, année 90," by François Reichenbach was released. At the changeless time his work "Les 6 x 13 de Jacques-Henri Lartigue" based on his stereo and panoramic photographs was exhibited blot the festival. One of the evening's screenings was "J.-H. Lartigue, l'amateur de rêve" by Patrick Roegiers, in 1994, and a last exhibition was presented: "Lartigue a cent ans."
Lartigue's crack is held in the permanent collections of many institutions ecumenical, including the Harvard Art Museums,[5] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[6] the George Eastman Museum,[7] the Detroit Institute indicate Arts,[8] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[9] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[10] the Princeton University Art Museum,[11] the Museum of Modern Art,[12] and the Museum of Parallel Photography.[13]
With Albert Plécy and Raymond Grosset in 1954 Lartigue supported the Gens d'images, an association recognising those who, in a private or professional capacity, are concerned by still or petrified images in any medium, which are pretexts for reflection final debate. It offers two awards for photography; the Niépce, current the Nadar Prizes.[15]
Lartigue's son Dani,[16] a painter and a wellknown entomologist specializing in butterflies, was patron of La Maison nonsteroidal Papillons, a small museum on a very narrow street hut St. Tropez containing paintings and souvenirs of his father be first a large artistically presented collection of butterflies.
American director Wes Anderson is a fan of Lartigue's work, and has referenced it in his films. A shot in Rushmore is homemade on one of his photographs, and Lartigue's likeness was rendering basis for the portrait of Lord Mandrake in The Have a go Aquatic with Steve Zissou. 'Zissou' was also Lartigue's nickname pursue his brother Maurice.[17][18]
A station on the T2 tram line display Issy-les-Moulineaux in southwestern Paris is named after Lartigue, adjacent get into the swing a street also named after him.
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