“Photography is a magic thing! A magic thing with all sorts of mysterious smells, a bit strange and frightening, but something you learn to love very quickly”
- Jacques Henri Lartigue aged seven (1901)
Jacques Henri Lartigue
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Aerial panorama of San Francisco in ruins, 1906
Colour photographs of the Duke of Windsor, gardening
Colour photographs of Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
Construction of the Eiffel Tower
Albert Memorial allotments, 1941
Method of wrapping carrier pigeons for dropping from air-craft
Neptune’s Certificate
Ghosts of Auschwitz
Sokolsky's Bubble, 1963
The Cafe From Hell
'Careless Talk' posters, WWII
The Destruction of Epinal, 1940 / 1944
First Tour De France, 1903
Ghosts of Paris
Inside the New York subway, 1905
Anti-Prostitution Posters, WWII
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, early 1900s
"Young Ladies from Miss Knapps Select School have an outing at Coney Island", 1905
Amateur Autochromes by John B. Trevor, 1907-1919
Danderine, 1905
Evolution of the 3M Logo, 1906-2012
The photograph of the gentleman throwing the dog over the stream is my favourite – a comic gem.
fabuleux Lartigues !