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Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Jacques-Henri Lartigue was a French photographer renowned for his unique perspective on Parisian life in the early 20th century. His work is characterized by its clear composition and vibrant colors, capturing the fashion, sports, and everyday life of the time. more

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“There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.”

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“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.”

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