“I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life. I go out to find people who resemble me and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.”~ Willy Ronis (1910 - 2009)
Willy always found beauty in the ordinary and everyday life. Here is one of the most celebrated images of childhood in the whole French humanist canon. A photograph of his son Vincent, lost in the moment of intense concentration trying to make his model airplane fly. Does it stir up the same memories of childhood as I feel looking at this image now in this special season?
