The Proof of Color
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Atelier EXB
English
Hardcover
160 pages
190 × 225 mm
2024
ISBN 9782365114073
Jacques Henri Lartigue’s The proof of color sheds light on a little-known aspect of the iconic photographer’s work: his fascination with the stereoscopic Autochrome – one of the first color photographic processes just introduced. From 1912 to 1927, and then more than a decade later, in 1946, Lartigue produced 300 autochromes, 90 of which are still intact today, presented here for the first time in their entirety and in their original format. This process was a formidable tool for exploration, and renewed his relationship with the medium, in contrast to his work on speed. More attentive to the composition of the image and the development of a broad chromatic palette, the photographer takes on the posture of a painter rather than an instantaneous artist.
The visual corpus is introduced by an essay written by Marion Perceval entitled The Absolute Impression of Reality followed by the text Lartigue’s “Tango” Sweater of curator and photography historian Kevin Moore, which help to grasp the importance of the corpus and its impact on the history of color photography, as well as the resonance it continues to have. Several illustrated notes at the end of the book explore, through quotations and analysis, the evolution of the photographer’s interest in Autochrome, and the questions it raises.
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About the Artist
Jacques‑Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer and painter celebrated for the spontaneous, joyful images he began making in childhood and continued throughout his life.
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About the Publisher
Atelier EXB publishes works that address new forms of photography, contemporary art and sciences. Founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral, and taken over in 2020 by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles and Perrine Somma), the publishing house conceives each book with great attention to both content and form. To question the forms of photography, to bring to light artistic voices, to approach the major questions which innervate our contemporary societies through the image: the Atelier EXB is at the same time a space of creation, curiosity and opening on the world.
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