Isbn: 0691120021 - Jacques Henri Lartigue: the Invention of an Artist (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to jacket, clean pages and sound binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Like New. As a young boy, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) set about passionately recording his life in photographs, first documenting his domestic circle and later capturing the auto races, air shows, and fashionable watering holes of the Belle Epoque. His images have so bewitched modern viewers that even scholars have failed to see them clearly. In 'Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist,' Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crucial role in teaching him the latest techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography. Two events brought Lartigue before the public eye in America and created the Lartigue myth: In the summer of 1963, the first exhibition of Lartigue's work in the United States was held at the Museum of Modern Art, which hailed him as an important modernist photographer, a forerunner of the art-documentary style of the 1960s. That fall, Life magazine published a feature presenting his work as an optimistic and sentimental prologue to World War I. Both treatments portrayed him as a naive genius and Lartigue happily participated in shaping this new persona. In 'Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist,' Moore successfully challenges the Lartigue myth using examples from popular magazines and the cinema. Illustrated with more than fifty of Lartigue's photographs and drawings as well as press imagery from the period, the book offers a radical reassessment of the photographer and his work. 'This book places Lartigue's work in a context that is unknown to the English-speaking world. The breadth of sources and their use is most impressive. Jacques Henri Lartigue makes an important contribution to the history of photography and will bring about a complete reassessment of Lartigue and his work.'--Marta Braun, Ryerson University'Moore's ideas are well expressed and well documented. He has combed through sports, fashion and camera magazines and come up with the original sources for Lartigue's supposedly naive, primitive, childlike vision. Interesting and often amusing, this book adds much to our knowledge of this artist and our own visual culture . . . and it is also a good read.'--Shelley Rice, New York University wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good first edition first printing in very good dust jacket. Binding is solid. Quick flip thru of pages revealed no writing in body of book. Jacket is nice with some shelfwear. We use quality packaging materials (including boxes!) for shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Square 8vo. 272 pp. b/w photos. Quarter grey cloth with black paper boards lettered in silver at spine. Minor shelf-wear to bottom edges of boards. Photographic jacket. Slight edge-wear and rubbing. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. In archival mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good.

Halbleinen. mit Schutzumschlag. Gr.-Oktav. 272 S. Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch, Mit zahlr. schw.-w. Abb. sehr gutes Exemplar. LMEX.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Grey spine over three quarter black cloth with silver gilt titles to spine in illustrated dustjacket. Full page and in-text black and white photographs. 272pp including notes, bibliography and index. fINE IN FINE DJ. Lartigue, Jacques Henri (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition.