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Lartigue: Album of a Century | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alain Sayag, Quentin Bajac, Martine D'astier
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
Buy New: $300.77
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 571543
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.1
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 9.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0810946203
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780810946200
ASIN: 0810946203
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Product Description
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) took his first photograph using his father's camera when he was six years old, and thus precociously began to create what would become an enduring record of 20th-century French life. Lartigue's charming images depict the intimacies of family, the style and panache of the Belle Époque and the Parisian haut monde, the novelty of aviation and motoring in their infancy, and the vagaries of street life. Arranged into large albums, his several thousand photographs form a visual diary, as well as one of the major achievements of modern photography. As Lartigue approached his 80th birthday, he donated his entire collection of albums, prints, and negatives to the French State. This beautiful book, the most comprehensive ever published on the artist, reproduces facsimile pages from the albums-ranging from the earliest family heirlooms to the last photographs he created before his death-and includes six essays about various aspects of his art. Produced to accompany a major retrospective of Lartigue's work that will open at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and later travel to the United States, the book brings new attention to one of the great masters of photography.
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Magical Photographs May 28, 2008
A beautifully-printed album of Lartigue's lyrical photographs with a text that places them in the context of their time, especially the visual culture of their time. There is endless delight to be had within these pages.
Highly recommended December 22, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are an afficionado of things European (especially things French) in the first half of the 20th Century, this is a great book for you. Lartigue was a wonderful photographer and chronicler of life in the 20s, 30s and 40s. This coffee table-sized book presents hundreds of beautifully composed black and white photos that give a clear picture of the upper end of French social, cultural and artistic life prior to WWII. A fine book.
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