Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist
"Moore delves revealingly into the personal and cultural context of Lartigue's work and its 'rediscovery,' and he writes well enough to make this complex story engrossing."--Kenneth Baker,San Francisco Chronicle"This is not a dry scholarly text, but an interesting account of the shaping of an art career and the strong influences of the artist's visual culture."--Cheryl Shugars,Philadelphia Inquirerer"An enthralling construction and deconstruction of an artist's life."--Choice"A sophisticated, clearly written and argumentative book. . . . As Moore convincingly argues, Szarkowski's promotion of Lartigue coincided with the curator's early attempts to validate photography as an art whose formal qualities were derived not from painting or other 'synthetic' mediums but from its own 'analytic' traditions of vernacular and commercial practice."--Andy Grundberg,Art in America