[The Guardian] Jacques Henri Lartigue: portrait of the photographer as a young man

Jacques Henri Lartigue: portrait of the photographer as a young man

He’s best known for images of aviators, racing cars and socialites on the Côte d’Azur, but a new book reveals the driving passions of the French photographer’s early life

In a family photograph taken by his father in 1903, nine-year-old Jacques Henri Lartigue stands on a path in the Bois de Boulogne, in front of his mother and grandmother. He is grinning mischievously and clutching a beloved Jumelle box camera that had recently been given to him by his father. In the next few years, Jacques will constantly record the world around him, photographing his bedroom, making portraits of uncles and cousins, and framing his older brother, Zissou, as he leaps into the air from a boat.

Another 60 years will pass, however, before the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York hosts the first exhibition of his work, belatedly bestowing on Jacques Henri Lartigue the recognition he deserves as one of the great innovators of 20th-century photography.

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