Rouzat - Zissou and his tyre boat

Jacques Henri Lartigue
France
1894 – 1986

Rouzat - Zissou and his tyre boat
1911; printed 2003
platinum print
Place made
Paris
Medium
platinum print
State
6/35
Dimensions
20.5 x 16.8 cm (image)
Credit line
Gift of Barbara Fargher and family through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2016
Accession number
20162Ph14
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
European Photographs
Image credit
Photo: Stewart Adams

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    In 1905 Lartigue’s father bought the Château de Rouzat near Puy-de-Dôme in central France. The space and freedom of this property provided an ideal environment for the games and inventions of Jacques Lartigue and his older brother Maurice (nicknamed Zissou), seen here in a ’tyre boat’. Jacques Lartigue wrote:

     

    We spend a lot of time in and around our pool. Zissou has discovered a kind of boat, a tyre boat we call it. You slide your legs into a pair of waders sealed to the bottom of the hull and ’walk’ through the water. Of course I had to take a photograph of him the first time he tried it: immaculately dressed, with the same serious expression on his face as always.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016