la belle êpoque

spent (literally) hours in the arts library today, researching possible topics for my history of photography paper assignment. i've narrowed it down to two (man ray & surrealism vs. amateur photography during early 20th century) but i'm still clawing my way through piles of books... definitely leaning towards the latter though. i love love love love lartigue's work. so much fun. i want to live in la belle êpoque too!


i just found out while googling these photographs that wes anderson was referencing lartigue in rushmore! another reason to love his work.

and of course, his most famous:

when i have my own home i am definitely going to buy a big print of this.