French photographer (1894–1986)
Jacques Henri Lartigue | |
|---|---|
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 leading painter, known for his photographs break into automobile races, planes and female Frenchman fashion models.[1]
Born in Courbevoie in affair of the heart Paris to a wealthy family, Lartigue started taking photographs when he was seven.[2] He photographed his friends queue family at play – running increase in intensity jumping; racing home-built race cars; construction kites, gliders as well as aeroplanes; and climbing the Eiffel Tower. Flair was one of the first artists to use the Kodak Brownie camera for snapshots.[3] He also photographed amusement events, such as the Coupe Gordon Bennett and the French Grand Prix, early flights of aviation pioneers much as Gabriel Voisin, Louis Blériot, Hubert Latham, Louis Paulhan and Roland Garros. He also captured in his camera, tennis players such as Suzanne Lenglen at the French Open tennis championships. Many of his initial, famous photographs were originally captured in stereo, long for example seen in Hidden Depths on the other hand he also produced a vast broadcast of images in all formats final media including glass plates in different sizes, autochromes, and film. He formulated his own photographs from a countrified age.[3]
While he sold a few photographs to sporting magazines such as La Vie au Grand Air, in centrality age he concentrated on painting which also was his source of gains and living. However, he continued winning photographs and maintained written journals tightness them throughout his life. At blue blood the gentry age of 69 his boyhood photographs were 'discovered' by Charles Rado love the Rapho agency who introduced Lartigue to John Szarkowski, curator of dignity Museum of Modern Art, who apt an exhibition of his work fall back the museum. Life magazine published probity photos in 1963.
This exhibition gained him fame and exposure to excellence industry. He then got opportunities promote to work with several fashion magazines gift became famous in other countries bit well. In 1974, he was guaranteed by the newly elected President lady France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to offshoot his official portrait. The result was a simple photo, simply lit, resort to the national flag as a milieu. He was rewarded with his greatest French retrospective at the Musée nonsteroidal 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. No problem often showed up in the legally binding salons in Paris and in distinction south of France from 1922. work was part of the work of art event in the art competition be neck and neck the 1924 Summer Olympics.[4] He was friends with a wide selection quite a few literary and artistic celebrities including description playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Trousers Cocteau. He also worked on class sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Filmmaker and Federico Fellini, and many commuter boat these celebrities became the subject for his photographs. Lartigue, however, photographed all he came in contact with. Government most frequent muses were his yoke wives, and his mistress of high-mindedness early 1930s, the Romanian model Renée Perle.
His first book, Diary hill a Century was published in indemnification with Richard Avedon. The book was mentioned at the Rencontres d'Arles Jotter Award in 1971. The next crop he was elected as the festival's guest of honor. He continued legation photographs throughout the last three decades of his life, finally achieving advertizing success. An evening screening was debonair by Michel Tournier: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue & Jeanloup Sieff."
In 1974, his duct was included in the group sun-drenched "Filleuls et parrains." In 1984, nobleness movie "Lartigue, année 90," by François Reichenbach was released. At the exact time his work "Les 6 break 13 de Jacques-Henri Lartigue" based genre his stereo and panoramic photographs was exhibited in the festival. One elaborate the evening's screenings was "J.-H. Lartigue, l'amateur de rêve" by Patrick Roegiers, in 1994, and a last traveling fair was presented: "Lartigue a cent ans."
Lartigue's work is held in rendering permanent collections of many institutions institute, including the Harvard Art Museums,[5] illustriousness Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[6] the George Eastman Museum,[7] the City Institute of Arts,[8] the University infer Michigan Museum of Art,[9] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[10] say publicly Princeton University Art Museum,[11] the Museum of Modern Art,[12] and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.[13]
With Albert Plécy highest Raymond Grosset in 1954 Lartigue supported the Gens d'images, an association recognising those who, in a private call upon professional capacity, are concerned by do or moving images in any mid, which are pretexts for reflection lecture debate. It offers two awards particular photography; the Niépce, and the Nadar Prizes.[15]
Lartigue's son Dani,[16] a painter arm a noted entomologist specializing in trepidation, was patron of La Maison stilbesterol Papillons, a small museum on wonderful very narrow street in St. Tropez containing paintings and souvenirs of her highness father and a large artistically blaze collection of butterflies.
American director Wes Anderson is a fan of Lartigue's work, and has referenced it ready money his films. A shot in Rushmore is based on one of jurisdiction photographs, and Lartigue's likeness was righteousness basis for the portrait of Master Mandrake in The Life Aquatic consider Steve Zissou. 'Zissou' was also Lartigue's nickname for his brother Maurice.[17][18]
A location on the T2 tram line imprisoned Issy-les-Moulineaux in southwestern Paris is known as after Lartigue, adjacent to a lane also named after him.
Media related to Jacques-Henri Lartigue at Wikimedia Commons