The american photographer and art critic Milton Gendel passed away on October 11, 2018. We celebrate him today, December 16, the day of his 100th birthday, with a photo taken at the opening of his last exhibition in Rome. We want to remember him smiling, because Milton was a man of great kindness, with a brilliant intellect, endowed with a taste for irony and sense of humour. Two months have passed since his death but his memory is always alive in all of us.