theatre · Exhibitions

Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour

At MK Gallery, Milton Keynes · 147 performances from Fri 11 Sept to Sun 4 Oct.

‘Colour is the best way to express the charm and poetry of life.’ / ‘I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.’ Silvana Empain, 1961 © Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture, France / MPP-AAJHL French painter, writer, and photographer, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) is best known for his black and white photographs of society at the turn of the century Parisian Belle Époque. He also famously documented innovations including car racing and aviation, the floating world of the mid-century French Riviera, and trips to the Un