His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was friends with a wide selection of literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau. He also worked on the sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini, and many of these celebrities became the subject of his photographs. Lartigue, however, photographed everyone he came in contact with. His most frequent muses were his three wives, and his mistress of the early 1930s, the Romanian model Renée Perle. His first book, Diary of a Century was published in collaboration with Richard Avedon. The book was mentioned at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award in 1971. The next year he was elected as the festival's guest of honor. He continued taking photographs throughout the last three decades of his life, finally achieving commercial success. An evening screening was presented by Michel Tournier: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue & Jeanloup Sieff." In 1974, his work was included in the group exhibition "." In 1984, the movie "," by François Reichenbach was released. At the same time his work "" based on his stereo and panoramic photographs was exhibited in the festival. One of the evening's screenings was "" by Patrick Roegiers, in 1994, and a last exhibition was presented: "." Collections Lartigue's work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions worldwide, including the Harvard Art Museums, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Award 1984: The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh) Legacy With Albert Plécy and Raymond Grosset in 1954 Lartigue founded the , an association recognising those who, in a private or professional capacity, are concerned by still or moving images in any medium, which are pretexts for reflection and debate. It offers two awards for photography; the Niépce, and the Nadar Prizes. Lartigue's son Dani, a painter and a noted entomologist specializing in butterflies, was patron of , a small museum on a very narrow street in St. Tropez containing paintings and souvenirs of his father and