In episode four we meet our first non-German photographer, a citizen of France who for most of his life was not known as a photographer at all, but as a painter. He had the good fortune of being born into a wealthy family and took his first photo in 1901, when he was only seven and when cameras were rare and expensive equipment. During the interview he shows off some of his cameras and discusses his love for racing cars and aeroplanes, toys of the privileged in an age when the majority still worked on farms or in factories. Lartigue even had his own darkroom, perhaps the only child in France to have had one. Many of his most well-known photographs are those taken during his childhood and young adult years capturing the lives of the Parisian rich at the turn of the 20th century.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Review: Master Photographers: Jacques-Henri Lartigue, BBC, 1983
In episode four we meet our first non-German photographer, a citizen of France who for most of his life was not known as a photographer at all, but as a painter. He had the good fortune of being born into a wealthy family and took his first photo in 1901, when he was only seven and when cameras were rare and expensive equipment. During the interview he shows off some of his cameras and discusses his love for racing cars and aeroplanes, toys of the privileged in an age when the majority still worked on farms or in factories. Lartigue even had his own darkroom, perhaps the only child in France to have had one. Many of his most well-known photographs are those taken during his childhood and young adult years capturing the lives of the Parisian rich at the turn of the 20th century. 
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