Word: doisneau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ROBERT DOISNEAU, 81, photographer; in Paris. The postwar Paris captured by the lens of Doisneau's camera was the Paris of young lovers stealing an ! embrace, American soldiers roughhousing around the City of Light, two bearded compatriots excitedly greeting each other with kissed cheeks -- in short, the Paris of one's dreams, rendered with both satire and great affection. Parisian-born, Doisneau began his career as a photographer while in his 20s, lending his talents to the Resistance during the Nazi Occupation. He achieved prominence as a fashion photographer after the war and international recognition with his portraits...
...dahling, shall we get a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh? They don't have them. We'll settle for a Warhol. It'll look perfect in the place of the passe Robert Doisneau...
...here they are: our picks for the best photographic reinterpretations of Robert Doisneau's "The Kiss." We sighed and wiped sentimental tears from our eyes as we poured over the entries--all three of them; finally, we're ready to present the lovey-dovey couples below, captured on film for Fifteen Minutes...
...Maggie's photo, Brian J. Murphy '95 (left) and Jonathan D. Caverley '95 (right) on the couch, coyly sipping their tall cool ones and reveling in the ecstasy of loooove. One Crimson photographer commented, "It's not really a kiss. It's more like a lick." Whatev. We think Doisneau would've shot "The Lick" if he could've found one as cute as this...
This technical brilliance combines with excellent performances to make "Breathless" a seductive portrait of people with glamorous outsides and messed-up, fairly desperate insides. It's as if you were to get right up close to the blissful couple in Robert Doisneau's photograph "The Kiss"--and discover that he's twisting her arm. It's a beautiful, terrifying experience...