Bruce Davidson
Photo by Maynard Owen Williams.
From “Paris Lives Again,” National Geographic, December, 1946.
Statues and Children Frame the Eiffel Tower and Its Watery Image
When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point. Last March the Americans gave it back to the French. Completed in 1889 for the Universal Exhibition, the 984-foot structure was the world’s tallest until 1929, when New York City erected the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Statues stand beside the Museum of French Monuments at the Place du Trocadéro.
* Andre Kertesz
* Boy Holding the Puppy (1928)
* Extracts from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: “He is looking at nothing; he retains within himself his love and his fear: that is the Look.”
Harold Lloyd and Ann Christy slide and spin at Coney Island - “Speedy” (1928)
