JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE: DIARY OF A CENTURY
Jacques Henry Lartigue, Richard Avedon [Editor]
Jacques Henry Lartigue: JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE: DIARY OF A CENTURY. New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Folio. Embossed brick cloth stamped in gold. Gold metallic embossed dust jacket. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Photographs and text by J.H. Lartigue. Numerous gravure reproductions. Top of textblock lightly spotted. Price-clipped jacket lightly scratched [as usual] with a small patch of soiling to front panel. A very good or better copy with a very good or better example of the publishers dust jacket.
10.25 x 13.25 hardcover book designed by Bea Feitler and edited and with an afterword by Richard Avedon. This edition was selected as one of the Roth 101 titles.
Packed with Lartigue's black and white photos, which document the 20th century from 1901 to 1970. Accompanied by excerpts from Lartigue's diaries. Shots of his family and contemporary personalities including Colette, Chevalier, Vuillard and Picasso.
This remarkable diary, was known only to family and friends until 1962, when some of the photographs were exhibited in Paris. The next year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a show and produced a catalogue with an introduction by John Szarkowski . . . [Lartigue] had the perfect temperament to be the chronicler of an optimistic age.
-- David Levi-Strauss, in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books
"[Lartigue] absorbed conventions effortlessly, and he knew how to see the world through a viewfinder. But we ought to believe him when he says that he was motivated by nothing more than wonder and delight, and it is this that makes his work so appealing. (He may be the only 20th-century artist to be famous for his happiness.) There is no guileless eye, but there are guileless boys, and Lartigue was one: a prodigy." -- excerpted from Jim Lewis, The Lartigue Hoax, a review of Kevin Moore's controversial book Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist