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21/6/2007

Two exhibitions

Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam

Rob van der Nol / Jacques Henri Lartigue

Rob van der Nol

Rob van der Nol photographs young people, adolescents. He is attracted to the process of change and transition in their lives. It reminds him of what is called experience of transit, moments that lie between waking and sleep, night and day, sites of delicate exchange and metamorphosis. Van der Nol is not trying to capture an object, he is fascinated and equally caught up in the experience.

Rob van der Nol finished his studies at the Rietveld Academy in 2006. He has since then exhibited in the City Hall (Haarlem), the Oosterkerk, Galerie Witteveen and The Chiellerie (Amsterdam). Van der Nol published several books, a.o. 12 4 ’12, Fishdish and Wandeling (all 2006)

Jacques Henri Lartigue

This summer Foam presents work by the best known amateur photographer of the 20th century: the Frenchman Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986). Born into a prosperous middle-class family in Paris, Lartigue focused his camera on the carefree existence in and around his own family circle. Lartigue is above all famous for his spectacular photos of car races, aeroplanes and people and animals in motion. He could capture fleeting moments of happiness like no other. Lartigue’s oeuvre offers a light and cheerful perspective on life in France in the early 20th century.

Foam features his earliest work up to around 1932. Beside approximately one hundred prints, the show also includes original albums, diaries and stereo photos.

Lartigue began photographing at the age of six, and continued until his death in 1986, having taken some 100,000 photos. He recorded his life, his loves and passions with infectious enthusiasm. At first it was games and family outings that drew his attention. He quickly evolved a fascination for the depiction of speed. As a teenager he developed this interest further and used improved technology to photograph numerous car races, the flights of the first aviators and sports competitions. As a young man he turned his camera on the beautifully dressed women who promenaded on the Bois-de-Boulogne and at society events. Ever the curious amateur, Lartigue experimented with all kinds of photographic methods, most especially with stereo photography.

Lartigue collected his photographs in around a hundred albums that together represent a visual autobiography. With his sketchbooks and diaries, they provide an insight into the photographer’s private world. Besides taking photos, he also wrote and painting throughout his life.

Lartigue sold occasionally photos to the press and exhibited work at a presentation in Paris alongside photos by major figures such as Man Ray and Brassaï (1955). Yet his reputation as photographer was not established until at the age of 69 his work appeared in a retrospective at MoMA, in New York. Worldwide fame followed three years later with the publication of his books The Family Album (1966) and Diary of a Century (1970), the last one compiled by Richard Avedon. In his final years Lartigue was much in demand as a photographer for fashion magazines.

Image: Charly, Rico et Sim, Rouzat, septembre 1913, Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture - France / AAJHL

FOAM Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 - Amsterdam
Open daily from 10.00 to 18.00, Thurs/Fri 10.00-21.00
Admission 7 euros

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