Lartigue, J. H. [Jacques-Henri]; Fondin, Jean.
Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Guilded Age.
[Lausanne]: Ami Guichard, (1966). 126 pp. Illus. with 162 b/w photos. Obl. 8vo. (24 x 30 cm). Gilt decorated maroon cloth with photo vignette. First printing. Faint rubbing to boards else a fine copy. Item #25018Jacques Lartigue (1894-1986) "took his first photographs at the age of six, using his father's camera, and started keeping what would become a lifelong diary. In 1904 he began making photographs and drawings of family games and childhood experiences, also capturing the beginnings of aviation and cars and the smart women of the Bois de Boulogne as well as society and sporting events. An unfailingly curious amateur, he tried out all the available techniques, tirelessly recording the fleeting moments and meticulously arranging his several thousand images in large albums." He worked with Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini. This, his first book, was conceived by Richard Avedon. The captions and text were written by Jean Fondin from interviews with the photographer.
