Jacques Henri Lartigue’s Chinese Parasols

A few more Chinese parasols today (A common theme on this blog now and then as regular browsers will have observed, such as just this week on parasols in 1930s Bournemouth). As I’m on my holidays in France this week we’ll have the French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, who snapped the denizens of the French Riviera for years, starting in the early years of the century through to be about 1949. He was a man who loved his Chinese parasols – they feature repeatedly in his work. Here though some with really big, and very cool, parasols….