Maître au travail!

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
French Photographer 1894-1986

(1910)

(1931)

(1911)

His photos are juste magnifique!

The revered photographer met his muse in 1930 on the Rue de la Pompe. He thought she was Mexican, but he guessed wrong; Perle was Romanian, and a model once employed by the French dressmaker Doeuillet. "She is beautiful," Lartigue told his diary. "The small mouth with the full painted lips! The ebony black eyes. From under her fur coat comes a warmth of perfume. The head looks petite on her long neck."- Laird Borrelli


If only I could have lived during that era,
and modeled for such a photographer....

I would like to think I did,
in a past life.

Read more about Jacques

On the Back Burner:

I've landed back in Los Angeles (AKA)
The City of Angels, The Entertainment Capital of the World, La-La Land, Tinseltown,
so on
and
so on.
I had quite the date with Charles Shaw last night, and currently interested in anything coffee related.

Listening to: Al Bowlly

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