Dani et ses flirts, 1922

Dani was Lartigue's only child. He recalls the early days after the birth in his diary: "I have a son! He was born on August 23. His name is Dani, and he cries, he screams, he howls. Is he suffering? Is he being tortured? No, it's not torture, it's all a terrible joke. Being born a man, what consolation has he? He has been crying for eight days now. He stops, then begins anew. A few moments of merciful silence, then the familiar sound starts up all over again! When Dani finally consents to give his public a vague, resigned smile of concession, every-one is ecstatic: "He smiles like an angel..." (See Lartigue, Diary of a Century)

Double refers to the fact that there is another print of this image from the same date in the grey albums currently in the collection of l'Association des Amis de Jacques-Henri Lartigue in France.