Jacques Henri Lartigue: A Sporting Life

Jacques Henri Lartigue was fascinated by the ascent of sport in the early twentieth century as a fashionable pastime for the middle classes, and was himself a keen sportsman. Lartigue’s entirely unposed photographs, presented album-style in this gorgeous, luxurious and delightful volume, capture both the joyous exuberance of amateur sports—racing, skiing, tennis, gymnastics, hang gliding—and the particular character of its popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. Lartigue is an …