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Jacques LartigueFrench, 1894 - 1986

In his early years, Jacques Lartigue began photographing automobile races, airplanes, and machines he built, and recorded them in a photographic journal. In 1915, he studied painting at the Julian Academy in Paris, France. A skilled painter, he made his living this way, although still continuing his photographic journals. It wasn’t until the 1960s that he became known for his photographs when, in 1963, the photographs he took as a boy were shown in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Following the exhibit, one of his photographs was featured in Life magazine. He was then featured in several fashion magazines and began to receive international recognition. In 1974 he was commissioned by the president of France to shoot his official portrait. The following year, Lartigue the Musee des Arts Decoratifs organized his first French retrospective. He published his first book Diary of a Century soon afterward, and it received a mention at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award in 1971. He continued to receive commissions from numerous fashion and decoration magazines for the remainder of his life. (Ware 2013)

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Zissou in his Tire Boat, Chateau de Rouzat
Jacques Lartigue
1911 (printed early 1970s)
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