If it moves, shoot it

Lartigue was born in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century into a wealthy, high-society family with a few eccentrics in its midst. His father was a banker and keen amateur photographer. His grandfather was one of the inventors of the monorail system, and his elder brother designed and built aeroplanes as early as 1908. In his twenties, Lartigue married Bibi, the daughter of André Messager, a composer, conductor and manager of the Paris Opera.