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Museum of Modern Art; Photography in France;
Szarkowski, John
Biography
Born in Courbevoie, France, 13 June 1894. Received first
camera in 1902. Amateur photographer for most of his
life. Trained as a painter at the Acade ́mie Julian in Paris in
- First solo photography exhibition at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York in 1963. Died in Nice, France
13 September 1986.
Individual Exhibitions
1963 The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue; Museum
of Modern Art, New York, New York
1966 Photokina; Cologne, Germany
1971 Photographers’ Gallery; London, England, and tra-
veled to Open University, Bucks; Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield; Art Center, Nottingham; Plymouth Art Cen-
ter, Devon; City Museum, Bristol; Central School of
Arts, London; Oldham Art Gallery, Lancashire; Liver-
pool Polytechnic, Liverpool; Darlington Hall Arts Cen-
ter; Marseille; Le Havre; Museum fu ̈r Kunst und
Gewerke, Hamburg, Germany
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Deauville (ballon airship), 1919, Photo: H. Lewandowski.
[Re ́union des Muse ́es Nationaux/Art Resource, New York]
LARTIGUE, JACQUES HENRI