The Life and Loves of Jacques Henri Lartigue

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Jacques Henri Lartigue has one of those life stories which might have been written for cinema. Born in Courbevoie, France, at the tail-end of the 19th century, he cut his teeth photographing friends and family playing outside as a young boy before moving onto shooting sports events in his adolescence, a combination of which made him particularly adept at capturing people in motion. Later, this unique capacity for depicting movement in his images would become his winning hand…