DATE: September 19, 2009

Review: Jacques Henri Lartigue at Howard Greenberg


Lartigue's earliest photographs were made at the turn of the last century, when he was a child, and if the excitement, spontaneity, playfulness, and wonder of those pictures were difficult to sustain in his later years, they never entirely disappeared.


ImageJacques Henri Lartigue, Jacques Lartigue at the wheel of the Bugatti Type 43 belonging to one of his lady friends at the 1932 Monaco Grand Prix, 1932
This exhibition of vintage and early prints might well be the most charming and exhilarating show in town. Included are some of Lartigue's most famous images, along with many more never shown before, nearly all of people in motion: diving, jumping, skating, or simply strolling in the park; in flimsy biplanes, flimsier go-carts, and huge automobiles.

From in The New Yorker.





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