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B.C. Binning
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Jacques henri lartigue The French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) created a remarkable archive of photographs of French high society at play in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Cote D’Azur. He is one of the earliest photographers to work with a hand held camera. The youngest child of well-to-do and somewhat eccentric parents, at only eleven years of age, he photographed his cousin Bichonnade leaping down the front steps of his father’s Paris mansion. The now famous image of the young woman frozen in mid-air is an emblematic image included in most histories of photography. He was one of the earliest photographers to explore the creative possibilities of hand-held cameras in capturing movement. Evidence of Lartigue’s love of flight are his many photographs depicting the speed and drama of new cars and airplanes, and with it, the kind of leisurely human activities that disclose a life of considerable ease and wealth. His seminal first book, Diary of a Century, published in 1970, features an afterward by his long-time friend and collaborator Richard Avedon. Majestic, elegant and with an enchanting delight for life, the success of the photographs in this influential book demonstrate Lartigue’s vision as one of the most natural and unaffected to have graced the history of the medium.
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