Signed. Signed by Lartigue, who in 1901, aged seven, was given a large-plate camera by his father and, the following year, received a Brownie No.2 handheld camera. He immediately started photographing his family life, sporting events, and modern inventions, including early planes and automobiles, as he and his prosperous family travelled throughout Europe. Lartigue continued photographing throughout his youth and had taken many of his best-known photographs by the age of thirteen. In 1962, a selection of his pictures were exhibited in Paris, and the following year, John Szarkowski mounted an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [With] a copy of The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, Volume XXX, No. 1, 1963, in which Szarkowski writes, 'The vigor and freedom of Lartigue's photographs grew from a commitment not to photography but to life. His understanding of the medium, though intense and certain, was neither broad nor subtle. His was an achievement of love and genius, uncomplicated by aesthetic theory or professional ambition... Lartigue looked into the eyes of a changing world, and what he saw there he recorded with a prophetic freshness of vision.

First edition, signed on the title page; 4to (330 x 251 mm, 13 x 10 in); black and white photographs printed in gravure, endpapers feature reproductions of pages f+-rom his diary, edited by Richard Avedon, designed by Bea Feitler; brown cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in gold on spine and in blind on upper side, fine in a near-fine metallic gold printed and embossed dust-jacket which is lightly rubbed and scratched, as often, with one short tear and toning to verso; [254]pp.

Regards à travers Le Livre 160; The Book of 101 Books pp200-201; The Open Book pp264-265; Auer Collection p517.