Jacques Henri Lartigue - The Invention Of An Artist - 2004

FANTASTIC BOOK about the work and life of LEGENDARY FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER Jacques Henri Lartigue,
famous through "Diary of a Century" (Andrew Roth, Book of 101 books).

"This book places Lartigue's work in a context that is unknown to the English-speaking world. The breadth of sources and their use is most impressive. Jacques Henri Lartigue makes an important contribution to the history of photography and will bring about a complete reassessment of Lartigue and his work "
- Marta Braun, Ryerson University -

Welcome to the auction by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany) - in honor of „French photobooks“.
To celebrate the 55th edition of ‘’Les Rencontres d’Arles’’ - we have gathered 110 books (55 each).

"Moore's ideas are well expressed and well documented. He has combed through sports, fashion, and camera magazines and come up with the original sources for Lartigue's supposedly naive, primitive, childlike vision. Interesting and often amusing, this book adds much to our knowledge of this artist and our own visual culture- and it is also a good read."
- Shelley Rice, New York University -

IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE.

"As a young boy, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) set about passionately recording his life in photographs, first documenting his domestic circle and later capturing the auto races, air shows, and fashionable watering holes of the Belle Époque.
His images have so bewitched modern viewers that even scholars have failed to see them clearly.
In Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone.
Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crucial role in teaching him the latest techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
Two events brought Lartigue before the public eye in America and created the Lartigue myth: In the summer of 1963,
the first exhibition of Lartigue's work in the United States was held at the Museum of Modern Art, which hailed him as an important modernist photographer, a forerunner of the art-documentary style of the 196s. That fall, Life magazine published a feature presenting his work as an optimistic and sentimental prologue to World War I. Both treatments portrayed him as a naive genius, and Lartigue happily participated in shaping this new persona.
In Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Moore successfully challenges the Lartigue myth, using examples from popular magazines and the cinema. Illustrated with more than fifty of Lartigue's photographs and drawings as well as press imagery from the period, the book offers a radical reassessment of the photographer and his work."
(Kevin Moore)

Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 2004. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 235 x 235 mm. 272 pages. 58 duotones, 47 black-and-white illustrations. Photos: Jacques Henri Lartigue. Designed by Carolyn Eckert. Composed by Tina Thompson. Printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside excellent, super fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside like new (protected by the jacket); lightly bumped at the left corner of the rear side (with no consequence for inside). Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; lightly used. Overall very fine condition.

Great Jacques Henri Lartigue book - in great condition.