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‘Lartigue’s photography neither denounced nor demonstrated – at a time when the medium rejected all assessment based on purely aesthetic considerations, he simply yielded to beauty as a source of contemplation’ - Claire Stoullig

Born in 1894 into a privileged family in Courbevoie, France, Jacques Henri Lartigue received his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, at the age of seven, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. He immediately began capturing the world around him, focusing initially on his adoring family and his nanny. What started as a documentation of cherished memories and …