Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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.

3 comments:

Marina Liu said...

MAN RAY VS. SURREALISM!
MAN RAY VS. SURREALISM!
MAN RAY VS. SURREALISM!

Marina Liu said...

Oops I mean &. WHATEVS!

MONICA said...

ooooooh this looks interesting!
don't listen to marina she's just trying to create greater internal conflict! lol