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Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of Happiness: Photographs
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Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of Happiness: Photographs

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Hardcover English 208 pages 23.37 x 27.94 x 2.54 cm 2.50 lbs

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The Invention of Happiness: Photographs explores moments of joy and leisure captured through the lens of Jacques Henri Lartigue. The book presents a candid visual approach that emphasizes spontaneity and the ephemeral nature of happiness, often conveyed through scenes of everyday life and movement.

Lartigue’s images are marked by lightness and a sense of playfulness, reflecting the artist’s fascination with youth, family, and the vibrancy of early 20th-century modernity. The photographs are composed with an intuitive eye, revealing an intimate and personal archive of memory and emotion.

Published by Marsilio Arte in 2020, this collection spans 208 pages and offers a thematic study of happiness as a photographic invention rather than a mere documentation, underscoring Lartigue’s unique contribution to the history of photography.