frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Jacques-Henri Lartigue [wiki] is generally hailed as one of the founders of modern photography. For reasons I can’t fathom he liked to take pictures of leaping people: “All the jumping and flying in Lartigue’s photographs, it looks like the whole world at the turn of the century is on springs or something. There’s a kind of [...]
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Found on Vintage Photo: Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the photographer’s son Danny holding his infant son Vincent (1944, click for bigger). Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 - 1986, wiki) was one of France’s most famous photographers, and is hailed as one of the founders of modern photography. His son Dany Lartigue, as well as being a painter, is a [...]
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
…it must be Dog-Throwing Day Mr. Folletête and Tupy, by Jacques Henri Lartigue, 1912. Click for bigger. (HT to Vintage Photo)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
The house/flat I grew up in... was quite busy and fun and always full of life. I have fond memories of a lot of noise and hectic goings-on. When I was a child I wanted to be... my grandmother was a maternity nurse and I had romantic notions of following in her path, until I had to have my tonsils out and realised how much hard work is involved. I have a tremendous respect for nurses but it's not my...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
The house/flat I grew up in... was quite busy and fun and always full of life. I have fond memories of a lot of noise and hectic goings-on. When I was a child I wanted to be... my grandmother was a maternity nurse and I had romantic notions of following in her path, until I had to have my tonsils out and realised how much hard work is involved. I have a tremendous respect for nurses but it's not my...
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE: Launching the ZYX, 1910Current Events... Madron LLC: A Gallery of American Art hosts the summer art auction PREVIEW RECEPTION Thursday, June 5, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Additional pr
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Found on Vintage Photo: this great photo of Renée Perle, shot by Jacques-Henri Lartigue in the early ’30s. Laird Borrelli on style.com about Renée Perle: Jacques Henri Lartigue, who immortalized Renée Perle in his pictures, called her “angel”. The revered photographer met his muse in 1930 on the Rue de la Pompe. He thought she was Mexican, [...]
Heraclitean Fire (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
A crop out of the centre of a photo I shot on the South Bank the other day when I went to see the Rodchenko at the Hayward. See also Phillippe Halsman and Jacques-Henri Lartigue. And of course Flickr.
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Simone Roussel on the Beach at Villerville, 1906. Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 - September 12, 1986) was a famous French photographer and painter, who started taking photos when he was six. He is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the [...]
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
On the occasion of the publication in America of "Madame Proust - A Biography", The Village Voice bookshop invite you to meet the author Evelyne Bloch-Dano and Alice Kaplan, the translator, on THURSDAY DECEMBER 13th at 7 pm "Using previously...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/24/2007
Lucy Davies applauds a ground-breaking year for photography, in which imaginative formats have illuminated our fascination with image.
D'log :: blogging no (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
My copy of the limited-edition Hidden Depths: Jacques Henri Lartigue - a box containing a set of stereo cards, a nice stereo viewer, and a 32-page booklet - has arrived…. “The photographs have been carefully chosen from the Lartigue archive of over 5,000 stereos to show some very well known photographs (although never seen in stereo) [...]
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
Hold on to your old photo albums - they just became more valuable.
growabrain (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Finding the earring Screen caps of film endings on flickr. (From Noisy Decent Graphics) Zissou's bobsled with wheels, after the bend by the gate, by Jacques Henri Lartigue. The inspiration for the shot of Max Fisher as founder of the...
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2007
"John Galliano calls Renée Perle, the inspiration behind his fall show, "a kittenish Parisian coquette." Jacques Henri Lartigue, who immortalized her in his pictures, had another term: angel. The revered photographer met his muse in 1930 on the Rue de la Pompe. He thought she was Mexican, but he guessed wrong; Perle was Romanian, and a model once employed by the French dressmaker Doeuillet. "She is...
