JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE

Course de Bob (mon voisin Louis Ferrand et mon cousin Jean Haguet), Château de Rouzat, 1911

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JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
Course de Bob (mon voisin Louis Ferrand et mon cousin Jean Haguet), Château de Rouzat, 1911
Gelatin silver print, 2.1/8 x 4¾ in., dated and stamped JHL later on verso.

Literature

Lartigue, Diary of a Century, p. 34 (illus.); Poirot-Delpech et al., Jacques-Henri Lartigue le Choix du Bonheur, p. 48 (illus.); J.H. Lartigue et les Autos, pp. 38-39 (illus.); Lartigue and Metral, Mon Livre de Photographie, p. 26 (illus.); Cech, Jacques-Henri Lartigue Boy with a Camera, p. 21 (illus.); Caujolle, Photo/Les Grands Maitres de la Photo Lartigue, p. 22 (illus.); Szarkowski, The Photographs of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p. 23 (illus.); Favrod, Jacques-Henri Lartigue Album, p. 31 (illus.); Pizzi et al., Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p. 63 (illus.); Coe, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p. 45 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Lartigue was fascinated with speed and movement and he tried desperately to record it all. In his diary he recalls the races which took place at the Château: "I shall try to photograph all the racers going at the highest speeds!...Far away: a horn...at last a racer is coming. Papa says, I am so excitied it makes me dizzy! I'm going to use 300/second, because of the car's speed. Then suddenly, the car has passed by...without saying anything...and I haven't made a photograph of it!...I will get a picture and a good one!...We get home; I'm exhausted. But before I fall asleep I keep thinking of the twelve photos I took with my Spido-Gaumont...and all of the other ones I took with my Bloc-Notes. In my dreams I'm sure I'll go on hearing the roar of the racing cars speeding by." (See Lartigue, Diary of a Century).

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