| Given a cameraby his fath.er in 1901.i Jacques Henri Lartiguebegan illustrating his diary with pictures a practice he contin-ued for seventy years, photographing spirited games at his family s country house, excursions in his father s first automobiles,trips to racetracks and seaside resorts, elegant women strollingin the Bois de Boulogne, his own honeymoon, and the ceaselessantics of his frier: Js and relatives; and photographing, too, suchcontemporar~y personalities as Colette, Maurice Chevalier,Suzanne Lenglen, Yvonne Printemps, Jean Vuillard, and PabloPicasso. Here, selected from Lartigue s seventy-year collection,are the photographs that best document the yisual changes of thetwentieth century. Accompanying these photographs are themost delightful entries from the text of Lartigue s diary. Anyonewho opens this "magic" volume will see why, in his Afterword,Richard Avedon calls Lartigue "the most deceptively simple andpenetrating photographer" in the history of the art. " |
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