{"product_id":"lartigue-9780500021309","title":"Lartigue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Baring has written for The Economist, the Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of several books on photography: Martine Franck; Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour; Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens; and Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lartigue's snatched portraits, for all the period details they capture, seem, like his previous images of speed and movement, oddly contemporary' - Observer\u003cbr\u003e'A titan of 20th-century photography who captured the spirit of his age' - Royal Photographic Society Journal\u003cbr\u003e'Details a golden age as seen through the lens of an unusual photographer' - Standpoint\u003cbr\u003e'Terrific' - Vogue Italia\u003cbr\u003e'Brings a wonderful clarity to his formative years ... beautiful, blithe, strange, addictive' - World of Interiors\u003cbr\u003e'Gives a spotlight to an era often overlooked by the First World War' - .Cent Magazine\u003cbr\u003e'Baring engagingly sets out the context of the Lartigue family and supplies pocket biographies for the figures ... who populate Lartigue’s photographs' - William Boyd, The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e'Captures the carefree, haute-bourgeois lifestyle of the young photographer' - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e'An affectionate memoir' - Mature Times\u003cbr\u003e'Leafing through these pages is to experience the heyday of a bygone age' - The Lady\u003cbr\u003e'Delightful ... a testament to Lartigue’s intense love of the world and the pleasures it affords' - John Banville, Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e'Proustian ... distils an era through a charmed, yearning but sharp and original eye' - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e'Draws on Lartigue’s diaries and photograph albums to create a vivid impression of the photographer’s childhood, years during which he would produce an extraordinary body of work that would, in time, become synonymous with that era’ ' - The New European\u003cbr\u003e'Baring's scholarly book on child prodigy Jacques Henri Lartigue locates his photographs within the extraordinary era that they were made' - British Journal of Photography\u003cbr\u003e'A vivid insight into early 20th-century France … has the quirky intimacy of a family album' - Best Art Books of 2020, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e'Excellent' - Julian Barnes, London Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction • An Enclosed World • A Seaside Album • La Vie du Château • Prisoners of Pleasure • The Beauty of Speed • A Sporting Life • The End of an Era","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402747289943,"sku":"9780500021309","price":23.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500021309.jpg?v=1730481392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lartigue-9780500021309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}