Jacques Henri Lartigue, Peintre et Photographe

“If we think of photography as a documentary art, our attention is likely to focus first on images of battle or disaster, deprivation or unrest. Indeed, outside the familiar confines of the family album or the surreal arena of celebrity, archival photographs most powerfully frame gritty realities our eyes might otherwise avoid. Not so with the pictures of Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), who produced stunning and sophisticated images from the time he was seven years old. Lartigue was in love with motion, and his subjects cars racing, flying machines and glider planes, people jumping, fashionable ladies strolling in the park, vacationers at the seashore and the races embody the exhilaration of movement. Zany and amusing, Lartigue’s work seems a testament to happiness itself, and this book with 126 duotone photos and 16 gatefolds is a fitting celebration of his legacy.” Reference: Vicki Goldberg. ‘Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer’. Bulfinch Press, 1998.

Credits: Producer, Bernard Meusnier ; director, Francois Reichenbach ; photographer, Francois Reichenbach, Gerard de Battista.
Cast: Interviewees include Michel Tournier, Jean-Michel Folon and Charlotte Rampling.