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Recreation Original This photograph, titled Avenue Du Bois De Boulogne, was taken by photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue on January 15, 1911 in Paris. Jacques Lartigue was born in Courbevoie, France on June 13, 1894. He took his first photographs at the age of six, using his father’s camera, and started keeping what would become a lifelong diary. In 1904 he began making photographs and drawings of family games and childhood experiences, also capturing the beginnings of aviation and cars and the smart women of the Bois de Boulogne as well as society and sporting events. He tried out all the available techniques, tirelessly recording the fleeting moments and meticulously arranging his several thousand images in large album. He started taking pictures when he was 6 years old. He would record the people and events of his life. And since it was a privileged life the world we get a glimpse of includes the sites of Paris, beautiful country homes, and the fine toys and leisure time that was available to the upper levels of society. It is like Lartigue was a little spy into the high society world of turn of the century Paris. He knew the things he was shooting very well, so he could turn them into great photographs. The photo was mainly focusing on three groups of figures: a fashionable woman walking her two dogs along the Avenue Du Bois De Boulogne, an old limousine and a horse drawn carriage. he woman is wearing a wide brim hat and a fur coat. He put the woman and her dogs at the very front of the scene and made them in the biggest size among the three groups, in order to show that this woman and her dogs was the most important group of figures. The whole background was almost all white, but the limo and the horse were black, also the woman was wearing a wide brim hat and a fur coat which were all black. Those black figures balanced the scene very well. The photograph was took by Lartigue when he was only 17. He took this suddenly while he was sitting on a bench on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, saw this woman was passing by. As Lartigue grew, so did his fascination with women. He knew that pretty women were displaying their dresses every day on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, so he chose to sit there to catch those fashions. There was a trick in the photo: Lartigue made a car chasing a horse drawn carriage, which might implied a new century was coming instead of the old ones. He took the picture just because he loved fashion, pretty woman, and there apparels and he wanted to share his love with his viewers. Lartigue said: “I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important.” He was simply showing us his interests and loves, but as a viewer, I could found some symbols of that time period in Paris or even the whole France through his photograph. I could even know what was the fashion trend at that time in Paris though the woman's apparel, and also know that during the time some new transportations were taking places of the old ones. Also I like the techniques he used in the photo, the whole scene was well-balanced in black and white. Although it was just a black and white photo, it still made the main figures, which were the woman and her dogs outstanding.
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