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FIFTY ONE TOO is pleased to present the second solo show of the French painter-photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (Fr, 1894-1986) “Life in Color”: intimate colour snapshots of Lartigue’s elite world of the 20th century. One third of his voluminous photographic oeuvre is consisting of early colour photographs, giving a new perspective on the vitality, the poetry and the enchantment of his renders.

Although Jacques Henri Lartigue is best known for his timeless and joyful black-and-white pictures, he was convinced that the use of colour in his photographic practise was indispensable, enhancing …