For a career, Jacques-Henri Lartigue chose painting. For amusement, he chose photography. So it is quite by accident that 17 years after his death, this slim, dapper Frenchman is remembered as one of the 20th century's most original photographers while meriting little more than a footnote in the history of modern painting.
ART/ACHITECTURE; Lartigue's Albums: The Well-Lensed Life
Alan Riding, The New York Times, July 6, 2003
