Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque

Author:   Louise Baring
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500021309


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Louise Baring
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780500021309


ISBN 10:   0500021309
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'Lartigue's snatched portraits, for all the period details they capture, seem, like his previous images of speed and movement, oddly contemporary' - Observer 'A titan of 20th-century photography who captured the spirit of his age' - Royal Photographic Society Journal 'Details a golden age as seen through the lens of an unusual photographer' - Standpoint 'Terrific' - Vogue Italia 'Brings a wonderful clarity to his formative years ... beautiful, blithe, strange, addictive' - World of Interiors 'Gives a spotlight to an era often overlooked by the First World War' - .Cent Magazine 'Baring engagingly sets out the context of the Lartigue family and supplies pocket biographies for the figures ... who populate Lartigue’s photographs' - William Boyd, The Spectator 'Captures the carefree, haute-bourgeois lifestyle of the young photographer' - Financial Times 'An affectionate memoir' - Mature Times 'Leafing through these pages is to experience the heyday of a bygone age' - The Lady 'Delightful ... a testament to Lartigue’s intense love of the world and the pleasures it affords' - John Banville, Irish Times 'Proustian ... distils an era through a charmed, yearning but sharp and original eye' - Financial Times 'Draws on Lartigue’s diaries and photograph albums to create a vivid impression of the photographer’s childhood, years during which he would produce an extraordinary body of work that would, in time, become synonymous with that era’ ' - The New European 'Baring's scholarly book on child prodigy Jacques Henri Lartigue locates his photographs within the extraordinary era that they were made' - British Journal of Photography 'A vivid insight into early 20th-century France … has the quirky intimacy of a family album' - Best Art Books of 2020, Sunday Times 'Excellent' - Julian Barnes, London Review of Books


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Louise Baring has written for The Economist, the Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of several books on photography: Martine Franck; Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour; Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens; and Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso.

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