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I love Jacques Henri Lartigue’s work.
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Jacques Henri Lartigue – also like Atget (posted on my other blog) is always welcome. If you don’t know Lartigue’s amazing and somehow surreal work, check him out. It’s magical.
Actually is this a portrait? It is of sorts…how my self given restrictions cause me dilemmas sometimes! This is what they call an environmental portrait, not because it’s outside but it shows the person in their environment…then again portraits don’t usually have their back to you! Oh those categories, they is blurring…
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This is basically my dream outfit.
Dapper Gent
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Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten, April 1932
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William Strang by E.O. Hoppé, England, 1912
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Another unusually informal portrait, this time 40 years later – when the technology meant he could hold that fan up without it being reinforced in concrete (seriously, they had arm and neck rests to keep people in place for Dageurrotypes and early shots because they took minutes of exposure time) or him being turned to stone by an Angel 😉
Johann Victor Krämer, selfportrait with fan, Vienna around 1895, albuminpaper, Albertina, Vienna
from: Museum Ludwig, La Bohéme, Die Inszenierung des Künstlers im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
