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Old 30th March 2020, 10:07 AM
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Default Lartigue - The Boy and the Belle Époque

A new biography of Lartigue as a young man is to published in April.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...as-a-young-man

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Old 30th March 2020, 10:23 AM
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Interesting. Another book to want but I must resist as I already have too many that I should look at and read properly or again. Thanks for posting.
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Old 30th March 2020, 12:03 PM
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Yes I have always been intrigued by his action shots wondering how he seemed able to capture split second action without apparent blur, given the speed of film at the time.

The lady falling off the trike for instance. The speed at which a person suddenly "leaves" the seat of a crashing trike has to be be too rapid to be captured without blur doesn't it, given the state of film speeds and the kind of camera he had been given as a child or does it? As in for instance she is almost stopped and simply rolls off the trike and is practically still when captured. So kind of "staged" Her face certainly carries no sudden shock

We the viewers supply the "speed" as we assume it is the minor equivalent of a I.o.M T.T. crash

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Old 30th March 2020, 04:16 PM
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I've always loved Lartigue's photos. He had such a whimsical style. You could just imagine the twinkle of humour and spark in his eyes as he was releasing the shutter. Wonderful stuff! Thanks Nick.
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Old 30th March 2020, 06:43 PM
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He was also a busy stereographer (or whatever the word would be) who made some lovely 3D images.

https://www.designforlife.com/aboutLartigue.htm

Then again, I just love stereo.
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Old 31st March 2020, 12:19 PM
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I too have liked some of his images that I have seen.

Interestingly, following up the camera make mentioned in the first paragraph of The Guardian article, his camera is not quite what I imagined, which I thought it to be a simple box type camera.

But googling, it show's that it might have been quite a sophisticated camera for the day:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Jumelle+bo...36170599d3.jpg

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Old 27th April 2020, 06:09 AM
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Here are some more details on the contents of the new book.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-52373308
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Yes I have always been intrigued by his action shots wondering how he seemed able to capture split second action without apparent blur, given the speed of film at the time.

The lady falling off the trike for instance. The speed at which a person suddenly "leaves" the seat of a crashing trike has to be be too rapid to be captured without blur doesn't it, given the state of film speeds and the kind of camera he had been given as a child or does it? As in for instance she is almost stopped and simply rolls off the trike and is practically still when captured. So kind of "staged" Her face certainly carries no sudden shock

We the viewers supply the "speed" as we assume it is the minor equivalent of a I.o.M T.T. crash

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I had a second thought about this and even if the accident was staged her skirt would still move to fall at gravitation speeds.
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