Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour

‘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 includin