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At 69, Jacques Henri Lartigue exhibited for the first time some of the many clichés he made during his life. We are in 1963, at MoMA, in New York. The same year, Life Magazine devotes a portfolio to him. This issue announcing the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy goes around the world. To his utter amazement, Lartigue suddenly becomes one of the great names of twentieth-century photography.

Photography, Jacques learned from his father in 1900. Responding to the enthusiasm of his son, Henri Lartigue offers him his first camera at the age of 8 years in 1902. Therefore, he constantly …