That *is* a pretty striking gallery, though I won't get to see the end of it until after this meeting Outlook is telling me I have to attend. Hot and hotter.
If Outlook told you to jump off a cliff, would you?
Yes, his stuff is cool. I saw the BBC Genius of Photography documentary episode that covered him. He's not a personal favourite, but the joi de vivre thing is right. A lot of his stuff has that wit about it.
Thanks for sharing this, Nick S.!
Very beautiful!
for lack of a better word, joy, in his pictures
I don't think there is a better word!
He's not a personal favorite, but the joi de vivre thing is right
I'd love to hear more from you because you know about photography than I do. I don't have much of a context with which to judge him but I can say that (a) he has a powerful personal style which (b) I happen to like.
Take this photograph, for example. Lots of people have taken similar photographs, but his seems easily recognizable as his work, and is just livelier.
also
Fixed.
See, this is how the guest posters get treated.
You don't see any of the front page posters with a bunch of +q -z's after their posts.
It seems appropriate to the traditions of this place.
re: 8
I don't know much about his technique or about him in general, actually. He apparently used a variety of things, although the earlier stuff of his family was large format and often stereoscopic, so it'd have been quite tricky to master that lightness of touch and spontaneity as the gear would have been a real hindrance.
The 'street' stuff that you've linked to in 8.2 is something I prefer done by others, I think, but I haven't seen enough of Lartigue's work in that style to really say.
Speaking of photography [self-promoting]:
http://bit.ly/emDRC0
http://bit.ly/h6dhR1
The 'street' stuff that you've linked to in 8.2 is something I prefer done by others
Hmm, in the context of Lartigue I would have put that in the category of "photographs of women" rather than "street shots" though I suspect there's a lot of overlap.
That isn't my favorite of his photographs, but I picked it to illustrate the way in which I think his particular "eye" and sense of style are consistent.
Here's the thing, I don't know if I'd call him a "genius of photography" because I don't know what the standards for that are, but he's still clearly worth knowing about.
Not least among the pleasures is just the historical aspect of it -- how modern and accessible he makes pre-war France.
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Speaking of photography [self-promoting]:
Those are nice, thank you. I particularly like the first one.
Not least among the pleasures is just the historical aspect of it -- how modern and accessible he makes pre-war France.
Arrgggh! Not at you in particular
And everyone in those pictures rushed headlong toward the Somme.
I guess we have two choices:
1) we are all the same, in which case on a moment's notice and for little cause, we too will stupidly sacrifice millions of our citizens. This is not common wisdom, but it wasn't then either.
2) we aren't the same, in which case the representations are profoundly deceiving.
The book I loved and can't remember, which was not 1913:Cradle of Modernism, used a Lartigue racecar picture on the cover as the controlling metaphor for the futureshock and anxiety of pre-WWI Europe that was a cause of WWI. According to him.
(Tuchman's Proud Tower is horrible.)
Those people and pictures are alien to us, or not, although apo's college capers above may help our empathy.
I personally am of course in the camp that believes someone could tomorrow shoot the 53rd consecutive Hashemite King of Jordan...and two billion would die.
Many would say WTF? and I would say same as ever was.
Shooting your 53rd consecutive Hashemite would be hard. Most people start to get jittery and psyche themselves out as they start to close in on Hank Aaron's record.
15: bob, why is it always all or nothing for you?
Can't we be similar in some ways and different in others?
Many would say WTF?
Truer words were never spoken.
17: Confusing Hank Aaron and Joe Dimaggio?
the way in which I think his particular "eye" and sense of style are consistent.
This is true, but some of that "sense of style" is as much period and class style as anything else. Photos like this one look like a lot of contemporary Vogue pictures; shots like these remind me of Beaton; and this one makes me think of Yves Klein.
I like Lartigue.
But, these photos are blocked by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Why?
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Incidental Nudity! I might as well be at BYU.
re: 22
Yeah, the softness and lighting of that first one could place it anywhere. Like some mid 19th century portraits, and also the 'photo-secession' and Pictorialists, who were contemporaries of Lartigue, used a similar style. It also reminds me a little of some of Rodchenko's less self-consciously arty shots.
This is Picasso with, I think, Lee Miller and (I'm less sure) Roland Penrose.
I think I've mentioned this before, but a lot of the 'secessionist'/Pictorialist stuff is good, despite what Ansel Adams and co thought:
Gertrude Kasebier:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENGB315&=&q=gertrude+kasebier&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=2560&bih=1215
Anne Brigman:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENGB315&biw=2560&bih=1215&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=anne+brigman&aq=f&aqi=g3&aql=&oq=
Stieglitz:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENGB315&biw=2560&bih=1215&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=stieglitz&aq=0s&aqi=g-s1g2g-s1g2g-s1&aql=&oq=steigli
Steichen:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENGB315&biw=2560&bih=1215&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=steichen&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=
Ttam's pictures in 13 are great, especially the first one.
Back from the park...oh so nice
bob, why is it always all or nothing for you?
Pretty much
Can't we be similar in some ways and different in others?
Like, we got all the good parts and have surpassed all the bad, so it's different this time? Cause that is how it has always worked, very few out there say that they have lost the Roman engineering and law but kept the desire for slavery and colosseum cruelty.
Just seems to me that most all? of human horrors have originated in a fucking misplaced or mistaken optimism
And that's how I roll. I believe the tea ceremony and gardens and haiku are inextricable from the totalitarianism and boiling in oil, so if I like the former, I look inside myself for signs of the latter. Culture is a unity, not a smorgasboard
