“The marvels of daily life are
exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the
street.”
— Robert Doisneau
TOTING HIS TRUSTY CAMERA through the avenues of
Paris, viewing the world through the lyrical eye of his Leica, Robert Doisneau gave us thousands of frozen
moments of wit and whimsy, innocence and romance. And more often than not,
playful story-pictures kissed with poetry.
Today, on its search home-page, Google celebrates the centenary of the
popular French photographer with a Doodle that reflects all those aspects of
the artist.
There, on the far-right in this
photographic quartet, is Doisneau’s most iconic image, “Kiss by the Hotel de
Ville (Le baiser de l’hotel de
ville),” the stirring liplock that appeared in Life magazine in 1950,
featuring a couple of aspiring 20something actors (who would, according to
lore, part ways less than a year later).
The image was staged. The romance
was real. And the moment’s artistic heat burns still.
“I don't photograph life as it
is,” Doisneau famously said, “but life as I would like it to be.”
(Real life, of course, could
prove harsher: The woman in the image, Françoise Bornet [nee Delbart], sued
Doisneau in 1993 for compensation and royalties; the case was dismissed. The
artist died the following year.)
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Doisneau so frequently found art,
though, in the pure and unposed physical exuberance of children at play. Google
reflects that by choosing his 1943 photo (at far left in the logo) shot near
the Eiffel Tower, titled “Tug on the Champ de Mars (Le remorqueur du Champ
de Mars).”
The Doodle is topped by the
striking 1971 image “Three little white children, Parc Monceau (Trois petits
enfants blancs, parc Monceau),” in which the trio of white-clad kids pass
the Parisian monument to writer Guy de Maupassant. And Google — such a fan of Street Views — completes its thoughtful logo
curation with 1977’s sad-sweet “Dog on Wheels (Le
chien a roulettes).”
“I am not a hunter of pictures,”
Doisneau once said. “I am a fisher of pictures.”
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