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Jacques Henri Lartigue

                  

Jacques Henri Lartigue, bibi and me in the mirror during our honeymooon.Hotel des Alpes, Chamonix, January 1920.© Ministère de la Culture-France/A.A.J.H.L.

The photograph above was that got my eye, the way that lartigue has setup this photograph, tell us more about their relationship and although it was during their honeymoon, you could feel the sense of distance between them in this photograph. to support that, it seems like there is only her clothes hung and the only chair in the shot and mainly the fact that he is the person on the mirror and whereas her,she looks like she is waiting for him.

The time when I went to see Jacques Henri Lartigue at photographers gallery, in was in the first floor. As I entered the room, the dim lights confused me to where I should start looking from, I started viewing the first one on the right and started walking into the second photograph realizing that after first few photographs this was his journey, his story about 'Bibi' his wife, in fact after a while I found out that Bibi was his first wife and mother of his only child. The exhibition was the first international showcase. It has several black and white photographs, mostly photograph of his wife Bibi and his loving days to when they had a child, and how they got separated.  

Culture24(2004). Lartigue And About Face - Contrasts At The Hayward Gallery. Available: http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography-and-film/art23490. Last accessed 20th March 2014.