Lartigue photography

A new book focusing on the French photographer’s early life reveals the passions that drove him

Famed French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue captures the spirit of early 20th-century athletics in a new anthology of black-and-white stills, out Oct. 31. THE SPORTING LIFE_09

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue ...

There were two French people on the top deck of this London bus sometime in 1926, the famous photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue and his first wife Madeleine Lartigue née Messager also known as Bibi. Lartigue used her in a great number of his photographs and she was considered his muse. Lartigue is famous for his Edwardian Paris street photography and his pioneering use of the Lumiere Autochrome colour film. On this day the open top bus has just passed the junction of Praed Street and Harbet…

“Via Appia Antica, #Roma 1960 Jacques-Henri Lartigue”

Storm in Nice, France, 1925. Windy and rainy.Photo by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

These photos might make you feel like you've stepped into a time machine!

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Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…