It was 1901, the height of the Belle Époque. Lartigue came from a prosperous background, and the black and white pictures he took in and around his home in Courbevoie, near Paris, were full of go-carting, tennis and bobsledding. As he grew older, this life of leisure came to encompass skiing in Chamonix and picnicking on the sands of the Côte d'Azur.
Jacques Henri Lartigue: When Black and White Master First Sees Red
Lucy Davies, The Telegraph, February 2, 2016
