Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist
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 naïve boy genius whose creations were...
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"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"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 naïve, 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 UniversityCheryl Shugars - Philadelphia InquirerThis is not a dry scholarly text, but an interesting account of the shaping of an art career and the strong influences of the artist's visual culture.
INTRODUCTION--Lartigue's Invention 7FORMATION: lartigue as Amateur, 1894-1922 Chapter One: Amateur Photography 17 Chapter Two: Sport and fashion 71 Chapter Three: Cinema 129TRANSFORMATION: Lartigue as Artist, 1963-1979 Chapter Four: Lartigue at MoMa 163 Chapter Five: Lartigue after MoMa 195CONCLUSION 215Appendix A: Key to names of Lartigue's Family, Friends, and Pets 218 Appendix B: 1963 MoMa Exhibition Checklist 219 Chronology 221 Notes 223 Acknowledgments 255 Bibliography 256 Index 266 Photography Credits 272
\ San Francisco ChronicleMoore delves revealingly into the personal and cultural context of Lartigue's work and its 'rediscovery,' and he writes well enough to make this complex story engrossing.\ — Kenneth Baker\ \ \ \ \ ChoiceAn enthralling construction and deconstruction of an artist's life.\ \ \ Art in AmericaA sophisticated, clearly written and argumentative book. . . . As Moore convincingly argues, Szarkowski's promotion of Lartigue coincided with the curator's early attempts to validate photography as an art whose formal qualities were derived not from painting or other 'synthetic' mediums but from its own 'analytic' traditions of vernacular and commercial practice.\ — Andy Grundberg\ \ \ \ \ Philadelphia InquirerThis is not a dry scholarly text, but an interesting account of the shaping of an art career and the strong influences of the artist's visual culture.\ — Cheryl Shugars\ \ \ \ \ Philadelphia Inquirerer\ This is not a dry scholarly text, but an interesting account of the shaping of an art career and the strong influences of the artist's visual culture.\ — Cheryl Shugars\ \ \ \ \ San Francisco Chronicle\ - Kenneth Baker\ Moore delves revealingly into the personal and cultural context of Lartigue's work and its 'rediscovery,' and he writes well enough to make this complex story engrossing.\ \ \ \ \ Philadelphia Inquirerer\ - Cheryl Shugars\ This is not a dry scholarly text, but an interesting account of the shaping of an art career and the strong influences of the artist's visual culture.\ \ \ \ \ Art in America\ - Andy Grundberg\ A sophisticated, clearly written and argumentative book. . . . As Moore convincingly argues, Szarkowski's promotion of Lartigue coincided with the curator's early attempts to validate photography as an art whose formal qualities were derived not from painting or other 'synthetic' mediums but from its own 'analytic' traditions of vernacular and commercial practice.\ \
