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Robert
Doisneau
Posters
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Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950
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Robert Doisneau Photos
Robert Doisneau Picasso Photos
Jacques
Prévert,
Paris,
1955
Robert Doisneau
Essayez
nos
pédalos,
1945
by
Robert Doisneau
La
Tour
Eiffel
en
liberté,
1969
by
Robert Doisneau
Venus
grabbed
by
the
throat,
1964
by
Robert Doisneau
Paris,
cats,
at
night
Rue
Marcellin
Berthelot
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Choisy-le-Roi
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1945
Cabriolet
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France
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1936
Children
in
the
Palais-Royal
garden
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1950
Champ
de
Mars
gardens
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1944
Child,
cat
and
Dove,
1964
Les
jambes
du
métro,
Paris,
1971
by
Robert Doisneau
The
children
of
Place
Hebert,
1957
by
Robert Doisneau
Photo Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau Picasso Photos
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Robert Doisneau Photos
Robert
Doisneau
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"Le
Muguet
du
Métro"
(Marc
and
Christiane
Chevalier
in
the
Paris
Metro)
Robert Doisneau - Jacques Prévert in a Telephone Booth
Robert
Doisneau
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Motorcyclists,
Porte
de
Orlean,
Paris
Robert
Doisneau
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Smoky
Scene
in
a
Paris
Bar
Quotes By:Robert Doisneau
Quotes:
"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated,
so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can
make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of
it what they will."
"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and
you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay
for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even
if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps
three seconds, snatched from eternity." 
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Doisneau
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Robert
Doisneau,
Kiss
by
the
Hotel
de
Ville,1950
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Doisneau
Photos
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Robert
Doisneau,
The
Cellist,1957
By
the
railings
around
the
Luxembourg
Gardens
Robert
Doisneau
1953
Robert
Doisneau
Photos
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Robert
Doisneau,
Un
Regard
Oblique,1948
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Doisneau
Photos
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By
the
railings
around
the
Luxembourg
GardensRobert
Doisneau
1953
Robert
Doisneau
Photos
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Les
Enfants
de
la
Place
Hebert
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Doisneau
Photos
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Doisneau
Photos
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Musician
in
Rain
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Doisneau
Photos
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Kiss
by
the
Hotel
de
Ville
1958
Robert
Doisneau,
Paris
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Doisneau
Photos
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Les
jambes
du
métro,
Paris,
1971
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Robert
Doisneau
Wiki
Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne - April 1,
1994) was a French photographer
noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Paris street life.
Robert Doisneau was one of France's most popular and prolific
reportage photographers. He was known for his modest, playful, and
ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and
eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Influenced by the
work of Kertész, Atget, and Cartier-Bresson, in over
20 books Doisneau has presented a charming vision of human frailty and
life as a series of quiet, incongruous moments. Doisneau has written:
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange
the unexpected that you find in the street."
Among his most recognizable work is Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss
by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a
couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. The
identity of the couple was a mystery until 1993, when Denise and
Jean-Louis Lavergne took Doisneau to court for taking the picture
without their knowledge. This action prompted Doisneau to reveal that he
posed the shot in 1950 using actor/models Françoise Bornet and Jacques
Carteaud.[1]
Françoise was given an original print as part of her payment. In April
2005 she sold the print for 155,000 € at an
auction. Paris was one of the favorite photographic subjects of
Doisneau.[2]
Doisneau's work gives unusual prominence and dignity to children's street culture;
returning again and again to the theme of children at play in the city,
unfettered by parents. His work treats their play with seriousness and
respect. In his honour, and owing to this, there are several Ecole
Primaire (Primary Schools) named after him. An example is at Veretz
(Indre-et-Loire).
The Maison de la
photographie Robert Doisneau in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, is a
photographic gallery named to commemorate Doisneau.
Robert Doisneau was one of France's most well known photographers. He
is best known for his street photography and the many playful images in
everyday French life. His photographs over the course of several
decades provide people with a great record of French life. He has
published over twenty books with realistic and charming pictures of
personal moments in the lives of individuals. One of his famous quotes
is: "The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can
arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." Robert Doisneau was
born on April 14, 1912 in Gentilly in the suburbs of Paris. Not much is
know about his childhood. At age thirteen he enrolled at the Ecole
Estienne, this was craft school where he studied engraving and
lithography. This is where he had his first contacts with the arts. He
also took classes in life drawing and still life. With his old-fashioned
training, he had great difficulty obtaining work as a lithographer. By
the end of the nineteen twenties, Robert Doisneau was working at the
graphics studio of Atelier Ullmann. This is where he begun making his
firsts experiments with photography. In 1931 he left advertising and
took a job as an assistant with the modernist photographer André
Vigneau. He sold his first photo story to the Excelsior newspaper in
1932. In 1934 he married Pierette Chaumaison. That same year he began
working as an industrial advertising photographer for the Renault car
factory. This job increased Robert Doisneau’s interest in working with
photography and people. In 1991 he was interviewed and admitted that the
years at the Renault car factory marked “the beginning of his career as
a photographer and the end of his youth.” Five years later, in 1939, he
was fired for being constantly late. He was forced to try freelance
advertising and postcard photography to earn his living. Postcard
photography in France at that time had Europe’s largest industry. Post
cards served the purpose of modern greetings as well as vacation
souvenirs. That same year he was hired by the Rapho photo agency. He
travelled throughout France in search of picture stories. This is where
he took his first professional street photographs. He worked there for
several months until the out break of the Second World War. Robert
Doisneau was drafted into war in 1939, he served the country both as a
soldier and as a photographer. He was in war until 1940 and continued
working for the resistance until the end of the war in 1945. He used his
engraving skills to forge passports and identification papers for the
French resistance. In 1950, Robert Doisneau photographed his most famous photograph, “Kiss
by the Hotel de Ville." This photograph has been reproduced by the
millions and is perhaps the most famous French photograph. It became a
symbol of young love in Paris which is the city most associated with
love. This photograph of two lovers kissing in a Paris street was made
for LIFE magazine. It was an image of post- war France, and a great
representation of Robert Doisneau’s work. He explained that “his
photographs show the world as he would like it to be.” That same year he
also photographed famous many artists including Giacometti, Cocteau,
Leger, Braque, and Picasso. The Fifties were Robert Doisneau's peak, and
then the Sixties were to be his wilderness years. In the seventies,
times in Europe begun to change. Editors began to look for new reportage
that would show the sense of a new social era. All over Europe, the
old-style picture magazines were closing as television got the public's
attention. But Robert Doisneau continued to work, producing books for
children and returning to advertising photography and celebrity
portraits. In the summer of 1993, an elderly French couple, Jean-Louis
and Denise Lavergne, went to a French court to claim their share in the
earnings from Robert Doisneau’s famous photo “Kiss by the Hotel de
Ville”. They incited they had been the couple who was photographed that
day in 1950. By the time they began the lawsuit, the photograph had
earned over 50,000 pounds in print sales alone, not including
reproduction fees for many thousands of posters, postcards and even a
jigsaws. The Lavergnes' lawsuit eventually led Robert Doisneau to
confess that the young lovers in “The Kiss” were actors hired to pose
for the picture, under his direction. The young models, Francoise Bornet
and Jacques Carteaud, now in their sixties, also pressed for their
share from the sales of the photograph. Robert Doisneau showed us not
the real Paris, but rather the one that he had always believed was
really there. He won several awards through out his life, some of these
being the Balzac Prize in 1986, the Grand Prix National de la
Photographie in1983, the Niepce Prize in 1956 and the Kodak Prize in
1947. A short film, "Le Paris de Robert Doisneau", was made in 1973. The
photography of Robert Doisneau has had a revival in the last ten years
or so. Many of his portraits and photos of Paris from the end of World
War II through the 1950's have been turned into calendars and postcards
and have becomes icons of French life. Doisneau was in many ways a shy
and humble man, like his photography. He lived in the Paris his whole
life and died in 1994.Chronology
- 1994 Dies April 1 in Paris.
- 1991 Introduced to the French author Daniel
Pennac.
- 1986 Meets the French journalist François Canna.
- 1985 Produces portraits of personalities for the magazine Femme.
- 1983 Introduced to French actress and producer Sabine Azéma, who would later make the film Bonjour Monsieur
Doisneau.
- 1984 Responsible for the topic of “New Urban Landscapes” for the
photographic mission of DATAR.
- 1975 Guest at the Meetings of Arles.
- 1967 Travels to work in the USSR to work for the magazine Working
Life.
- 1960 Visits the United States to work in Hollywood and Palm Springs.
- 1949-51 Receives contract with Vogue magazine.
- 1947 Introduced to Bordeaux shipper Robert Giraud
as well as the French poet Jacques Prévert.
- 1946 Raymond Grosset re-establishes the Rapho, which had closed during World War II. Doisneau
would go on to work with the agency for nearly fifty years.Works with
the weekly publication, Action. Travels to Yugoslavia.
- 1945 Works for the first time with Pierre Betz,
editor for the magazine Le Point (published from 1936 to 1962).[3]
Introduced to the Swiss poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars in Aix-en-Provence, France. Meets
photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founding members of the
photographic agency Magnum Photos.
- 1944 Introduced to French actor Maurice Baquet.
- 1942 Meets renowned French typographer Maximilien Vox.
- 1939 Introduced to The founder of the Rapho agency, Charles Rado. Begins working as a fully
independent photographer.
- 1934-38 Works as an industrial photographer at the Renault
factories in Billancourt, France.
- 1932 Images of a flea market are the first photographs sold to the
daily publication, L’Excelsior.
- 1931 Assistant to André Vigneau.
- 1930 Draftsman at the Ulman Workshop.
- 1926-29 Studies at Ecole Estienne in Paris and receives a diploma as
an engraver-lithographer.
- 1912 Born April 14 in Gentilly, France.
[edit] Awards
- 1986 Balzac Prize
- 1983 Grand Prix National de la Photographie
- 1956 Niepce Prize
- 1947 Kodak Prize
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