Ant's Eye View and Jaques-Henri Lartigue
One of the most inspiring master’s of photography began his career at six years of age. The French boy Jaques-Henri Lartigue shot in stereo, on glass plates, and also was responsible for making some of the first autochromed prints towards the end of the 19th century. The subject of his photography was his immediate surroundings and the day-to-day life of a French bourgeois adolescence: sporting events, automobile races, friends, play and fun. Lartigue presents us with a complete autobiography of his life at the turn of the century. I find that his use of the media to document his early years, unprecedented. Not because he was a bright boy who made impressive photographs,...Read more