Color Photography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Jacques Henri Lartigue is one of the great photographers of the 20th century – known for his whimsical, action based black and white work. Many people are not as familiar with his color photography. Beautiful and engaging, it is very different than the Lartigue we’re familiar with. Book: Lartigue, Life In Color – http://amzn.to/2d4yFej Lartigue’s color photography was done during 2 different periods. The first was his use of Autochrome plates from 1911-1926. Autochrome had a specific look used by photographers such as Heinrich Kuen. Lartigue went back to color a second time in the mid 1950’s with film as by this time he was shooting 35mm with his Leica’s and 120 format with his Rolleiflex. The work from this period is absolutely wonderful and rivals many of his contemporaries doing color work at the mid-century such as Saul Leiter.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Ted Forbes here from the art of photography and I was reminded on
0:03.9	Twitter yesterday that I never did my second episode on Lartigue and
0:08.1	particularly his color work. So we're going to do that today. I have researched this and
0:12.0	I just haven't done the show yet so this is what I'm going to do today we're going to do that today. I have researched this and I just haven't done the show yet.
0:13.2	So this is what I'm going to do today. We're going to look at Lartigue.
0:16.3	And this is a book that I'm going to be using. This came out last year.
0:19.1	This is called Lartigue, Life and Color. What's interesting is when I started to research this, you know, L'Artie is best known for a certain
0:27.8	style, a certain way of shooting, mostly black and white work. He lived to be 92. A lot of the work that he is best known for was work that he took when he was a kid. He really didn't become known to the public until the 1960s and he was born in 1894. So that's quite a while. And so it's really interesting how somebody like that that went largely
0:46.0	quote unquote undiscovered for a large amount of time like that how we start to perceive their work.
0:50.6	Anyway a lot of this color work has become the center of focus for shows and whatnot. This was a
0:54.9	catalog for an exhibition that was done last year and I think it's pretty
0:58.2	interesting. The estate that that holds Lartig's catalog and has all of his work. There's some copy in here that suggests
1:06.0	that about a third of it is actually in color that he shot quite a bit in color, which
1:10.0	is really not known for. So without further ado, let's dig in
1:13.8	and look at some of the color work of Jacques-Enry L'Artiege.
1:16.5	So the book that I'm using for this
1:17.9	is L'Artie, Life in Color,
1:19.7	and I will put a link to this in the show notes.
1:21.4	It's pretty easy to find, highly recommended,
1:23.4	it's really well done. This was actually a catalog for an exhibition that happened last year in 2015
1:28.9	of some of Lartigue's color work. Now Lartigue, it's very interesting. The way this book is set up is it's
1:35.4	done primarily by subject, but it starts with the autochrome images. And I want to talk
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