Foto Museum – Jacques Henri Lartigue and His World

F11 Foto Museum Opening hours: 3pm to 6pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Public Holidays

Jacques Henri Lartigue (13 June 1894 – 12 September 1986) started taking photos at the tender age of 6.  He was a man who rejoiced in life, a photographer with an insatiable fascination for all that surrounded him.  Throughout his life, Lartigue photographed his family and friends at play – running and jumping, racing wheeled soap boxes, building kites, golf, tennis, skiing, swimming and diving, gliders and aeroplanes, climbing the Eiffel Tower and so on.

Lartigue also photographed many famous sporting events, including automobile races such as the Coupe Gordon Bennett and the French Grand Prix, early flights by aviation pioneers including Gabriel Voisin, Louis Blériot, and Roland Garros, and tennis players such as Suzanne Lenglen at the French Open tennis championships.

Lartigue was friends with many literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau. He also worked on the sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini, and many of these celebrities became the subject of his photographs.  Fashionable Parisian women, including his own partners and companions, were amongst his favourite subjects.

This exhibition offers a wide selection of Lartigue’s photographs which captured with fresh perception and uninhibited grace the joie de vivre of fashionable well-to-do French society during and after the Belle Époque. Lartigue’s photographs reveal his persuasive charm and deep passion for the good life.  They also reflect his intense love for the world around him.  In an interview for his Autochrome book published in 1980, Lartigue remarked that “this tendency to choose unpleasant subjects is part of the sickness of our times; it makes men pave their way to their purgatory.  But there must be a reaction against it and a return to Beauty.”  For Lartigue, the joy of living was always there to be discovered, appreciated and shared.

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https://frenchmay.com/en/events/return-to-beauty-jacques-henri-lartigue-and-his-world/

雅克 • 亨利 • 拉蒂格和美丽的约会

雅克•亨利•拉蒂格(1894-1986)是位享受生活、对周遭一切充满兴趣的摄影师。在他的一生中，拉蒂格经常拍摄他的家人和朋友玩乐的情景，像是他们跑步、跳跃、参与小卡车赛事的时刻……还有许多著名体育盛事，包括如Coupe Gordon Bennett和法国大奖赛等汽车比赛，亦会拍摄Gabriel Voisin、Louis Blériot和Roland Garros等航空业先驱的早班飞航情况，还有Suzanne Lenglen在法国网球公开锦标赛比赛的情况。

拉蒂格有很多文学和艺术界的名人朋友，包括剧作家Sacha Guitry、歌手Yvonne Printemps、画家Kees van Dongen、艺术家Pablo Picasso及剧作家Jean Cocteau。他亦与不少电影制作人一起工作，例如Jacques Feyder、Abel Gance、Robert Bresson、François Truffaut和Federico Fellini。这些名人当中，许多都成为了他的照片主角。时尚的巴黎女性，包括他的伴侣和同伴，是他最喜欢的拍摄主题。

这次展览展示了Belle Époque期间及之后的法国社会风貌 。拉蒂格的作品具有深刻且富魅力的说服力，并揭示了对美好生活的深切激情。作品也反映了他对世界的强烈感情。对拉蒂格来说，通过摄影视角，他能重新发现生活的快乐。

Event Date: Thursday, May 4, 2017 - Monday, July 31, 2017

Contact Number: 00852-2851 0091

Pricing Info: Free Entry

Place Name and Address: F11 Foto Museum, 11 Yuk Sau Street, Happy Valley, Hong Kong

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