Jacques-henri lartigue - bichonnade leaping

jacques-henri lartigue - bichonnade leaping

Cousin Bichonnade in flight, 1905

Jacques Henri Lartigue was eleven years old when he took this photograph. A child prodigy, he was creating works in his adolescence that would later become recognised as masterpieces in the history of the medium.

Born into one of the wealthiest French families in the country, when he was seven Lartigue was given a large-plate camera and tripod. To operate it he needed to stand on a stool. His obvious delight with mastering the device was surpassed when a year later, his birthday present was a handheld Brownie No.2.

Lartigue’s boyhood photographs were almost always snapshots of friends and family, but his gift for composition gave them a quality that was quite unique – like the picture of his cousin here, taken as she rushed down stairs, captured as though in supernatural flight.

In other early photographs, he finds something magical in what might be considered mundane; pictures of his friends careering around in homemade carts, chasing kites, or

Jacques-Henri Lartigue | Howard Greenberg Gallery

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    Jacques Henri Lartigue (1905) | FROM THE BYGONE

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