The Other 100th

In the year that saw the opening of Fenway Park

and the sinking of the Titanic,

another event from 1912

now gives us the opportunity

to remember yet another 100th anniversary,

what was and what could have been:

One of the greatest ''spontaneous style'' photographers of all-time would have been one hundred today - if he had suffered considerably less stress during his professional life, he might have indeed made it to that venerable old age, yes...
Robert Doisneau most probably became such a stylist of photography
due to the fact that he saw, first hand, the worst of times throughout World War II
and that made him seek means to give out and make unforgettable and a vision of the world as it should idealistically be.
Although it claimed to be photojournalism, reporting reality in images, the genre Doisneau created, in many ways, soon became exposed as nothing other a great embellishment and a fantasy indeed...
Dommage, car... Through his great work, Doisneau was making the ordinary and the populistso very extraordinary and iconic...! But it wasn't reality.
He proved that a photographer is truly a master magician who can make anyone see not only what he wants but alsowhat one's innermost desire wants to behold...!
Truly, though, the real world is nothing like what is depicted in these fantastic shots from master magicians of photography such as Doisneau: he would say so himself, as he did, in fact, just before passing away. His most famous picture was the object of litigation that led to this revelation: it had not been a candid spontaneous romantic snapshot - it had been indeed staged, modeled and posed. The litigation ended in 1993. One year later, Doisneau's life ended as well.

Read all about the stress and controversy surrounding his most famous pic
here.

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