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Article: Lartigue: Album of a Century.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2004
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Lartigue: Album of a Century edited by Martine d'Astier, Quentin Bajac, and Alain Sayag, with essays by Clement Cheroux, Maryse Cordesse, and Kevin Moore Thames & Hudson, 48 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0500542910
The first time I remember consciously hearing of Jacques-Henri Lartigue was in 1976. One Saturday afternoon I was at my friend John Hastings's bookshop in Philadelphia browsing through an anthology of photography, The Magic Image, edited by Cecil Beaton and Gall Buckland, when I came across a lushly evocative image of a cloched-hatted woman sitting on a table at a terrace. 'That's Lartigue,' John said to me. 'He's known as the photographer of the world of ...