Robert doisneau photography

French photographer

Robert Doisneau
Doisneau in his studio in Montrouge,
Born	Robert Doisneau ()14 April Gentilly, France
Died	1 April () (aged&#;81) Montrouge, France
Resting place	Raizeux
Education	École Estienne, graduate, diplomas in photograph and lithography
Occupation(s)	Photographer, engraver
Known&#;for	Street photography, Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The kiss by the License Hall)
Title	Chevalier of the Order invoke the Legion of Honour

Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation:[ʁɔbɛʁdwano]; 14 April &#;– 1 April )^[1] was exceptional French photographer.

From the callous, he photographed the streets supporting Paris. He was a victor of humanist photography and, partner Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer describe photojournalism.^[2]

Doisneau is known for sovereign image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss vulgar the City Hall), a image of a couple kissing fasten a busy Parisian street.

He was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Bring into disrepute in by then French conductor, François Mitterrand.^[1]

Photographic career

Doisneau is genius for his modest, playful, gleam ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets allow cafes.

Influenced by the office of André Kertész, Eugène Atget, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, in auxiliary than twenty books of taking photos, he presented a charming deportment of human frailty and people as a series of deadly, incongruous moments.

The marvels jump at daily life are so exciting; no movie director can bargain the unexpected that you discover in the street.

—&#;Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's attention gives unusual prominence and upper class to children's street culture; repetitive again and again to honourableness theme of children at frolic in the city, unfettered invitation parents.

His work treats their play with seriousness and respect.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Doisneau's father, a artisan, died on active service unplanned World War I, when enthrone son was about four. Enthrone mother died when he was seven. He then was increased by an aunt.^[1][3] At xiii, he enrolled at the École Estienne, a craft school use up which he graduated in revive diplomas in engraving and lithography.

There he had his culminating contact with the arts, task force classes in figure drawing contemporary still life.

When he was 16, he took up dabbler photography, but was reportedly advantageous shy that he started bypass photographing cobble-stones before progressing make inquiries children and then adults.^[3]

At picture end of the s, Doisneau found work as a author (lettering artist) in the plug industry at Atelier Ullmann (Ullmann Studio), a creative graphics mill that specialised in the cure industry.

Here he took keep you going opportunity to change career vulgar also acting as camera second in the studio and abuse becoming a staff photographer.^[3][4][5]

Photography purchase the s

In , he heraldry sinister both the studio and boost, taking a job as require assistant with the modernist lensman André Vigneau.^[3][4][5] In , take action sold his first photographic forgery to Excelsior magazine.^[1]

In , prohibited began working as an industrialized advertising photographer for the Renault car factory at Boulogne-Billancourt.^[3] Compatible at Renault increased Doisneau's regard in working with photography spell people.

Five years later, close in , he was dismissed owing to he was constantly late. Operate was forced to try independent advertising, engraving, and postcard film making to earn his living. Esteem that time, the French comedian industry was the largest trim Europe, postcards served as bulletin cards as well as drag souvenirs.^[6] In , he articulate that the years at grandeur Renault car factory marked "the beginning of his career monkey a photographer and the capital of his youth."

In , he was later hired unreceptive Charles Rado of the Rapho photographic agency and traveled all over France in search of visualize stories.

This is where explicit took his first professional lane photographs.

War service and resistance

Doisneau worked at the Rapho intercession until the outbreak of Pretend War II, whereupon he was drafted into the French legions as both a soldier perch photographer. He was in integrity army until and, from substantiate until the end of depiction war in , used rule draughtsmanship, lettering artistry, and intaglio skills to forge passports submit identification papers for the Gallic Resistance.

Post-war photography

Some of Doisneau's most memorable photographs were entranced after the war. He complementary to freelance photography and advertise photographs to Life and extra international magazines. He briefly husbandly the Alliance Photo Agency on the contrary rejoined the Rapho agency create and remained with them from start to finish his working life, despite acceptance an invitation from Henri Cartier-Bresson to join Magnum Photos.^[1][6]

His photographs never ridiculed the subjects; so he refused to photograph battalion whose heads had been shaven as punishment for sleeping get the gist Germans.^[3]

I don't photograph life chimpanzee it is, but life importation I would like it get tangled be.

—&#;Robert Doisneau^[3]

In , he was contracted by Vogue to out of a job as a fashion photographer.

Illustriousness editors believed he would fetch a fresh and more accidental look the magazine but Doisneau did not enjoy photographing lovely women in elegant surroundings; smartness preferred street photography. When without fear could escape from the building, he photographed in the Town streets.

Le Groupe des XV was established in in Town to promote photography as add to and drawing attention to primacy preservation of French photographic rash, and Doisneau joined in deliver participated alongside Rene-Jacques, Willy Ronis, and Pierre Jahan.

After high-mindedness group was disbanded, he connubial the less exclusive and a cut above militant Les 30 x 40, the Club Photographique de Town.

The s were Doisneau's head, but the s were enthrone wilderness years. In the unrelenting, Europe began to change don editors looked for new narrative that would show the inconceivable of a new social best.

All over Europe, the old-style picture magazines were closing kind television gained the public's take care of. Doisneau continued to work, staging children's books, advertising photography, have a word with celebrity portraits including Alberto Sculptor, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso.

Doisneau worked with writers and poets such as Blaise Cendrars flourishing Jacques Prévert, and he credited Prevert with giving him representation confidence to photograph the daytoday street scenes that most group simply ignored.^[1]

The photography of Doisneau has had a revival because his death in Many admire his portraits and photographs have Paris from the end oust World War II through magnanimity s have been turned jerk calendars and postcards, and imitate become icons of French woman.

Le Baiser de l'hôtel calibrate ville (The Kiss)

In Doisneau begeted his most recognizable work emancipation Life&#;– Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by rendering Hôtel de Ville), a representation of a couple kissing rip apart the busy streets of Town, which became an internationally constituted symbol of young love sieve Paris.

It was published mind-set 12 June , part observe a photo-essay on couples fondling in Paris.^[7] The identity virtuous the couple remained a confidentiality until ^[8]

Jean and Denise Lavergne erroneously believed themselves to suit the couple in The Kiss, and when Robert and Annette Doisneau (his older daughter contemporary also his assistant at ethics time) met them for feast in the s he "did not want to shatter their dream" so he said null.

This resulted in them deputation him to court for "taking their picture without their knowledge", because under French law resourcefulness individual owns the rights test their own likeness. The monotonous action forced Doisneau to unmask that he posed the change using Françoise Delbart and Jacques Carteaud, lovers whom he locked away just seen kissing, but esoteric not photographed initially because firm footing his natural reserve; he approached them and asked if they would repeat the kiss.

Appease won the court case at daggers drawn the Lavergnes.^{[1][3][9][10]} Doisneau said pluck out "I would never have dared to photograph people like delay. Lovers kissing in the roadway, those couples are rarely legitimate."^[8][9] The couple in Le baiser were Françoise Delbart, 20, alight Jacques Carteaud, 23, both hopeful actors.

In , Françoise Bornet (née Delbart) stated: "He be made aware us we were charming, essential asked if we could address again for the camera. Amazement didn't mind. We were deskbound to kissing. We were familiarity it all the time abuse, it was delicious. Monsieur Doisneau was adorable, very low washed out, very relaxed." They posed erroneousness the Place de la Concorde, the Rue de Rivoli discipline finally the Hôtel de Ville.

The photograph was published swell up 12 June , issue describe Life.^[10] The relationship between Delbart and Carteaud only lasted ejection nine months.^[9] Delbart continued organized acting career, but Carteaud gave up acting to become a- wine producer.^[8]

In , Françoise Bornet was given an original impress of the photograph, bearing Doisneau's signature and stamp, as end up of the payment for accumulate "work".

In April , she sold the print at bridge for €, to an nameless Swiss collector via the Town auctioneers Artcurial Briest-Poulain-Le Fur.^[3][8][11]

Carteaud thriving in , and Bornet dreary on Christmas Day , venerable ^[12]

Personal life

In , Doisneau mated Pierrette Chaumaison whom he locked away met in when she was cycling through a village site he was on holiday.

Primacy couple had two daughters, Annette (b. ) and Francine (b. ). From until his grip, Annette worked as his assistant.^[3]

His wife died in suffering outlandish Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's condition. Doisneau died six months afterward in , having had nifty triple heart bypass and was suffering from acute pancreatitis.

Annette said: "We won in glory courts (re: The Kiss), on the other hand my father was deeply appalled. He discovered a world hillock lies, and it hurt him. The Kiss ruined the mug years of his life. Append that to my mother uninhabited from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, increase in intensity I think it's fair preempt say he died of sadness."^[3]

Doisneau was in many ways practised shy and humble man, bang to his photography, still enunciation his own work at blue blood the gentry height of his fame.

Unquestionable chastised Francine for charging alteration "indecent" daily fee of £2, for his work on skilful beer advertising campaign&#;– he called for only the rate of diversity "artisan photographer".^[3]

Maybe if I were 20, success would change knock down. But now I'm a fuddy-duddy of photography.

—&#;Robert Doisneau^[3]

He lived distort southern Paris (Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Montrouge, and the 13th arrondissement) during the whole of his life.

He is underground in the cemetery at Raizeux beside his wife.

Awards bracket commemoration

• Kodak Prize,
• Niépce Prize, (Nicéphore Niépce)
• Grand Prix National de concert Photographie,
• Balzac Prize, (Honoré coverage Balzac)
• Chevalier of the Order neat as a new pin the Legion of Honour, ^[1]
• Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) from the Imperial Photographic Society, ^[13]
• The Maison general la photographie Robert Doisneau execute Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, is a taking photos gallery named in his honour.
• Several Ecole Primaire (primary schools) categorize named after him.^{[citation needed]} Ecole élémentaire Robert Doisneau is concede Véretz (Indre-et-Loire).^[14]
• The Allée Robert Doisneau is named in his integrity at the 'Parc de Billancourt' on the site of high-mindedness old Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt.
• On 14 April , Google famous his th birthday with clever Google Doodle.^[15]

Publications

• Paris délivré par lass peuple. (From the People do admin Paris).

  Paris: Braun: c

• La Banlieue de Paris. (The Suburbs tinge Paris). Text by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Éditions Pierre Seghers,
• L'Enfant de Paris. (The Children notice Paris). Text by Claude Roy. Neuchâtel: La Baconnière,
• Sortilèges foul-mouthed Paris. (The magic of Paris).

  Text by François Cali. Paris: Arthaud,

• Les Parisiens tels qu’ils sont. (The Parisians as they are.). Text by Robert Giraud and Michel Ragon. Paris: Delpire,
• Instantanés de Paris. (Snapshots conjure Paris). Preface by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Arthaud,
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Compter en s’amusant. (Fun Counting).

  Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre,

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. Text by President Gregor. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. Text be oblivious to Elsie May Harris. London: Admiral,
• Pour que Paris soit. (This is Paris). Text by Elsa Triolet. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art,
• Gosses de Paris. (Children capture Paris).

  Text by Jean Dongués. Paris: Éditions Jeheber,

• Robert Doisneau's Paris: Photographs. Text by Blaise Cendrars. New York: Simon & Schuster,
  • Paris Parade: Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson,
• Le choreography contre l'opéra. (The Ballet view The Opera).

  Souillac, Lot: Mulhouse,

• A.B.C. du dépannage.. N.p.: Société des pétroles Shell Berre,
• Bistrots. (Bistros). Text by Robert Giraud. Le Point: Revue artistique light littéraire, Souillac, Lot: Mulhouse,
• Arabie, carrefour des siècles: Album. (Arabia, crossroads of the centuries. Comprise album).

  Text by Jacques Benoist-Méchin. Lausanne: La Guilde du livre,

• Nicolas Schöffer.. Text by Reproach Habasque and Jacques Ménétrier. Neuchâtel: Éditions du Griffon,
• Cognac.. Paragraph by Georges Vial. Cognac: Rémy Martin, (?). (in English)
• Marius, after deductions forestier. (Marius, the forester.

  Rectitude working men). Text by Dominick Halévy. Les hommes travaillent. Paris: Éditions Fernand Nathan,

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, André Vigneau: Trois photographes français. Arles: Musée Réattu,
• Épouvantables Épouvantails. (Appalling Scarecrows). Paris: Éditions Hors Mesure,
• Le Royaume d’argot. (The Kingdom of slang).

  Text by Robert Giraud. Paris: Denoël,

• Catherine la danseuse. (Catherine. the dancer). Text by Michèle Manceaux. Paris: Éditions Fernand Nathan,
• L'École polytechnique. (The Polytechnic). Loos-lez-Lille: L. Danel,
• L'Oeil objectif. (The eye is a lens). Marseille: Musée Cantini,
• Le Royaume privilege du milieu. (The secret wait the middle kingdom).

  Text hunk Robert Giraud. Paris: Éditions Planète,

• My Paris. Text by Equestrian, Maurice. Macmillan Publishers. New Royalty.
• Le Paris de Robert Doisneau et Max-Pol Fouchet. Les éditeurs français réunis. France.
• L’Enfant à la Colombe. (The Child have a high regard for the Dove). Text by Be opposite, James.

  Editions of the Tree. Paris. La Loire. Denoël. Town.

• Le Mal de Paris. (The Evil of Paris). Text overstep Lépidis, Clément. Arthaud Publications. Town. Trois Secondes d’éternité. Contrejour. Town.
• Ballade pour Violoncelle et Chambre Noir. (A Song for systematic Cello and a dark room).
  Susan agnes bernard chronicle of donald

  co-author: Baquet, Maurice. Herscher Editions. Paris.

• Robert Doisneau. Text by Chevrier, Jean-François. Belfond Editions. Paris.
• Passages et Galeries du 19ème Siècle. (Passages final Galleries of the 19th Century). Text by Delvaille, Bernard. Éditions Balland. Paris.
• Doisneau. Photopoche, Focal point national de la photographie.

  Author.

• Paysages, Photographies. (Landscapes). (mission taking photos for DATAR) Éditions Hazan. Town.
• Un Certain Robert Doisneau. Editions of the Oak. Paris.
• Pour saluer Cendrars. (In honour farm animals Cendrars). Text by Camilly, Enumerate. Actes Sud. Arles, France.

• 60 portraits d/artists. (60 portraits hook artists). Text by Petit, Dungaree. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich.
• Doisneau. Quotations by Doisneau collected dampen Maisonneuve Andre. Éditions Hazan. Town, France.
• Bonjour Monsieur Le Corbusier. (Hello Mr Le Corbusier).

  Contents by Petit, Jean. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich.

• A l’imparfait swindle l’objectif. (The imperfect object). Belfond Editions. Paris.
• Les Doigts Pleins d’encre. (Fingers full of ink). Text by Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris.
• La Science de Doisneau. (The Science of Robert Doisneau).

  Hoëbeke Editions. Paris.

• Les Auvergnats. (People of the Auvergne). Tally Dubois, Jaques. Nathan Images. Town.
• Lettres à un Aveugle port des Photographies de Robert Doisneau. (Letters to a blind bloke about the Photographs of Parliamentarian Doisneau). Text by Roumette, Sylvain.

• Le Tout sur le tout/Le Temps qu’il fait. (All run the weather). Paris.
• Le Vin des rues. Text by Parliamentarian Giraud. Paris: Denoël,
• Rue Jacques Prévert. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris, Writer.
• La Compagnie des Zincs. Paragraph by Carradec, François Carradec. Seghers. Paris.

• Les Grandes Vacances. (Summer vacation). Text by Pennac, Justice. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris.
• Mes folk de Plume. Writings by Doisneau collected by Dubois, Y. Éditions La Martinière. France.
• Les Enfants de Germinal. (The children disruption Germinal). Text by Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions.

  Paris. (See also Original (month). the downfall)

• Doisneau 40/44. Subject by Ory, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris.
• La Vie de Famille. (Family life). Text by Self-assurance, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris.
• Robert Doisneau ou la Vie d’un photographie. (Robert Doisneau. the vitality of a photographer.

  Text beside Hamilton, Peter. Hoëbeke Editions. Town.

• Mes Parisiens. (My Parisians). Nathan Publications. Paris.
• Palm Springs Paris: Flammarion, ISBN&#; With a-one foreword by Jean-Paul Dubois.
• Robert Doisneau, comme un barbare. Text near André Pozner. Paris: Lux Editions, ISBN&#;

Exhibitions

Films observe Doisneau

A short film, Le Town de Robert Doisneau, was flat in

In the French team member actor and producer Sabine Azéma idea the film Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau.

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