Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Test of Color.
EXB Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 31184 |
| Format | 20 x 23.2 |
| Détails | 154 p., numerous color photographs, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365113946 |
An undeniably important figure in photography, Jacques Henri Lartigue is famous for his black and white images of a world in the midst of the industrial revolution. At the dawn of the 20th century, he photographed speed and technical innovations, developing a passion for automobiles and the new possibilities offered by photography. Alongside this work, in 1912 he began to photograph in a radically different way, using a technique directly opposed to his quest for speed: stereoscopic Autochrome on glass plates.
This process requires him to change his approach because it relies on meticulous technical preparation and a very long and precise exposure time for his staged compositions. The final result is not a print but a double stereoscopic view that he projects onto a screen. Lartigue strives to depict scenes from the daily life of his circle of friends and family, from Sunday walks to winter vacations.
He fills the frame with vivid colors, in graphic constructions composed of a mixture of sun-drenched landscapes, faces, flowers, and carefully chosen clothing. During the short period he produced these images (until 1927), Lartigue made 90 Autochromes double vue, presented here for the first time in their entirety and to scale. In order to understand the importance of this series of works and the effect it had on the history of color photography, as well as the resonance it continues to have, the corpus of images is accompanied by a critical commentary written by specialists who analyze and provide the necessary reference points for understanding this work.
An undeniably important figure in photography, Jacques Henri Lartigue is famous for his black and white images of a world in the midst of the industrial revolution. At the dawn of the 20th century, he photographed speed and technical innovations, developing a passion for automobiles and the new possibilities offered by photography. Alongside this work, in 1912 he began to photograph in a radically different way, using a technique directly opposed to his quest for speed: stereoscopic Autochrome on glass plates.
This process requires him to change his approach because it relies on meticulous technical preparation and a very long and precise exposure time for his staged compositions. The final result is not a print but a double stereoscopic view that he projects onto a screen. Lartigue strives to depict scenes from the daily life of his circle of friends and family, from Sunday walks to winter vacations.
He fills the frame with vivid colors, in graphic constructions composed of a mixture of sun-drenched landscapes, faces, flowers, and carefully chosen clothing. During the short period he produced these images (until 1927), Lartigue made 90 Autochromes double vue, presented here for the first time in their entirety and to scale. In order to understand the importance of this series of works and the effect it had on the history of color photography, as well as the resonance it continues to have, the corpus of images is accompanied by a critical commentary written by specialists who analyze and provide the necessary reference points for understanding this work.