Robert Doisneau (; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of

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and with

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a pioneer of

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. Doisneau is known for his 1950 image ''Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville'' (''The Kiss by the City Hall''), a photograph of a couple kissing on a busy Parisian street. He was appointed a ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the

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in 1984 by then French president,

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Photographic career

Doisneau is remembered 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

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, and

, in more than twenty books of photography, he presented a charming vision of human frailty and life as a series of quiet, incongruous moments. Doisneau's work gives unusual prominence and dignity to

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; 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.

Early life

Doisneau's father, a plumber, died on active service in

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, when his son was about four. His mother died when he was seven. He then was raised by an aunt.Sunday Times. 6 November 2005. It started with the kiss. by John Follain
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, a craft school from which he graduated in 1929 with diplomas in

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and

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. There he had his first contact with the arts, taking classes in

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and

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. When he was 16, he took up amateur photography, but was reportedly so shy that he started by photographing cobble-stones before progressing to children and then adults. At the end of the 1920s, Doisneau found work as a draughtsman (lettering artist) in the advertising industry at ''Atelier Ullmann'' (''Ullmann Studio''), a creative graphics studio that specialised in the

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. Here he took an opportunity to change career by also acting as camera assistant in the studio and then becoming a staff photographer.

Photography in the 1930s

In 1931, he left both the studio and advertising, taking a job as an assistant with the modernist photographer André Vigneau. In 1932, he sold his first photographic story to ''Excelsior'' magazine. In 1934, he began working as an industrial advertising photographer for the

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car factory at

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. Working at Renault increased Doisneau's interest in working with photography and people. Five years later, in 1939, he was dismissed because he was constantly late. He was forced to try freelance advertising, engraving, and

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photography to earn his living. At that time, the French postcard industry was the largest in Europe, postcards served as

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s as well as vacation souvenirs. In 1991, he said that the years at the Renault car factory marked "the beginning of his career as a photographer and the end of his youth." In 1939, he was later hired by Charles Rado of the Rapho photographic agency and traveled throughout France in search of picture stories. This is where he took his first professional street photographs.

War service and resistance

Doisneau worked at the Rapho agency until the outbreak of

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, whereupon he was drafted into the French army as both a soldier and photographer. He was in the army until 1940 and, from then until the end of the war in 1945, used his draughtsmanship, lettering artistry, and engraving skills to forge passports and identification papers for the

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Post-war photography

Some of Doisneau's most memorable photographs were taken after the war. He returned to freelance photography and sold photographs to ''

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'' and other international magazines. He briefly joined the Alliance Photo Agency but rejoined the Rapho agency in 1946 and remained with them throughout his working life, despite receiving an invitation from

to join

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. His photographs never ridiculed the subjects; thus he refused to photograph women whose heads had been shaved as punishment for sleeping with Germans. In 1948, he was contracted by '' Vogue'' to work as a fashion photographer. The editors believed he would bring a fresh and more casual look the magazine but Doisneau did not enjoy photographing beautiful women in elegant surroundings; he preferred street photography. When he could escape from the studio, he photographed in the Paris streets. Le Groupe des XV was established in 1946 in Paris to promote photography as art and drawing attention to the preservation of French photographic heritage, and Doisneau joined in 1950 and participated alongside Rene-Jacques, Willy Ronis, and Pierre Jahan. After the group was disbanded, he joined the less exclusive and more militant Les 30 x 40, the Club Photographique de Paris. The 1950s were Doisneau's peak, but the 1960s were his wilderness years. In the 1970s, Europe began to change and editors looked 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 gained the public's attention. Doisneau continued to work, producing children's books, advertising photography, and celebrity portraits including

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, and

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. Doisneau worked with writers and poets such as

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and

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, and he credited Prevert with giving him the confidence to photograph the everyday street scenes that most people simply ignored. The photography of Doisneau has had a revival since his death in 1994. Many of his portraits and photographs of Paris from the end of World War II through the 1950s have been turned into calendars and postcards, and have become icons of French life.

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

In 1950 Doisneau created his most recognizable work for ''

'' – (''Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville''), a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris, which became an internationally recognised symbol of young love in Paris. The identity of the couple remained a mystery until 1992. Jean and Denise Lavergne erroneously believed themselves to be the couple in ''The Kiss'', and when Robert and Annette Doisneau (his older daughter and also his assistant at the time) met them for lunch in the 1980s he "did not want to shatter their dream" so he said nothing. This resulted in them taking him to court for "taking their picture without their knowledge", because under French law an individual owns the rights to their own likeness. The court action forced Doisneau to reveal that he posed the shot using Françoise Delbart and Jacques Carteaud, lovers whom he had just seen kissing, but had not photographed initially because of his natural reserve; he approached them and asked if they would repeat the kiss. He won the court case against the Lavergnes. Doisneau said in 1992: "I would never have dared to photograph people like that. Lovers kissing in the street, those couples are rarely legitimate." The couple in ''Le baiser'' were Françoise Delbart, 20, and Jacques Carteaud, 23, both aspiring actors. In 2005, Françoise Bornet (née Delbart) stated: "He told us we were charming, and asked if we could kiss again for the camera. We didn't mind. We were used to kissing. We were doing it all the time then, it was delicious. Monsieur Doisneau was adorable, very low key, very relaxed." They posed at the

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, the

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and finally the Hôtel de Ville. The photograph was published on 12 June 1950, issue of ''Life''. The relationship between Delbart and Carteaud only lasted for nine months. Delbart continued her acting career, but Carteaud gave up acting to become a wine producer. In 1950, Françoise Bornet was given an original print of the photograph, bearing Doisneau's signature and stamp, as part of the payment for her "work". In April 2005, she sold the print at auction for €155,000 to an unidentified Swiss collector via the Paris auctioneers Artcurial Briest-Poulain-Le Fur.The Photographs of Robert Doisneau, "Promenades dans les Passages avec Robert Doisneau" with Rosi Huhn (Interview), Bracha L. Ettinger (Photographic portraits of Robert Doisneau) and Wolfgang Schmitz (Drawings). In: Passages d'après Walter Benjamin / Passagen Nach Walter Benjamin. ds.: V. Malsey, U. Rasch, P. Rautmann, N. Schalz Verlag Herman Schmidt, Mainz, 1992.

Personal life

In 1936, Doisneau married Pierrette Chaumaison whom he had met in 1934 when she was cycling through a village where he was on holiday. The couple had two daughters, Annette (b. 1942) and Francine (b. 1947). From 1979 until his death, Annette worked as his assistant. His wife died in 1993 suffering from Alzheimer's disease and

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. Doisneau died six months later in 1994, having had a triple heart bypass and was suffering from

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. Annette said: "We won in the courts (re: ''The Kiss''), but my father was deeply shocked. He discovered a world of lies, and it hurt him. ''The Kiss'' ruined the last years of his life. Add that to my mother suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and I think it's fair to say he died of sadness." Doisneau was in many ways a shy and humble man, similar to his photography, still delivering his own work at the height of his fame. He chastised Francine for charging an "indecent" daily fee of £2,000 for his work on a beer advertising campaign – he wanted only the rate of an "artisan photographer". He lived in southern Paris (

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, and the 13th arrondissement) throughout his life. He is buried in the cemetery at

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, 1956 (

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) * Grand Prix National de la Photographie, 1983 * Balzac Prize, 1986 (

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) * Chevalier of the Order of the

, 1984. * Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) from the

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, 1991. * The

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, is a photography gallery named in his honour. * Several ''Ecole Primaire'' (primary schools) are named after him. Ecole élémentaire Robert Doisneau is at

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(Indre-et-Loire). * The ''Allée Robert Doisneau'' is named in his honour at the 'Parc de Billancourt' on the site of the old

factory at

. * On 14 April 2012, Google celebrated his 100th birthday with a

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Publications

* ''Paris délivré par son peuple.'' (''From the People of Paris''). Paris: Braun: c.1944. * ''La Banlieue de Paris.'' (''The Suburbs of Paris''). Text by

. Paris: Éditions Pierre Seghers, 1949. * ''L'Enfant de Paris.'' (''The Children of Paris''). Text by Claude Roy. Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1951. * ''Sortilèges de Paris.'' (''The magic of Paris''). Text by François Cali. Paris: Arthaud, 1952. * ''Les Parisiens tels qu’ils sont.'' (''The Parisians as they are.''). Text by Robert Giraud and Michel Ragon. Paris: Delpire, 1954. * ''Instantanés de Paris.'' (''Snapshots of Paris''). Preface by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Arthaud, 1955. * ''1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Compter en s’amusant.'' (''Fun Counting''). Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1955. ** ''1, 2, 3, 4, 5.''. Text by Arthur Gregor. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956. ** ''1, 2, 3, 4, 5.''. Text by Elsie May Harris. London: Nelson, 1962. * ''Pour que Paris soit.'' (''This is Paris''). Text by

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. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 1956. * ''Gosses de Paris.'' (''Children of Paris''). Text by Jean Dongués. Paris: Éditions Jeheber, 1956. * ''Robert Doisneau's Paris: 148 Photographs''. Text by Blaise Cendrars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. ** ''Paris Parade: 148 Photographs''. London: Thames & Hudson, 1956. * ''Le ballet contre l'opéra.'' (''The Ballet and The Opera''). Souillac, Lot: Mulhouse, 1956. * ''A.B.C. du dépannage.''. N.p.: Société des pétroles Shell Berre, 1958. * ''Bistrots.'' (''Bistros''). Text by Robert Giraud. Le Point: Revue artistique et littéraire, 57. Souillac, Lot: Mulhouse, 1960. * ''Arabie, carrefour des siècles: Album.'' (''Arabia, crossroads of the centuries. An album''). Text by Jacques Benoist-Méchin. Lausanne: La Guilde du livre, 1961. * ''Nicolas Schöffer.''. Text by Guy Habasque and Jacques Ménétrier. Neuchâtel: Éditions du Griffon, 1962. * ''Cognac.''. Text by Georges Vial. Cognac: Rémy Martin, 1960 (?). ** ''Cognac.''. Text by

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. Paris: Rémy Martin, 1962. * ''Marius, le forestier.'' (''Marius, the forester. The working men''). Text by Dominique Halévy. Les hommes travaillent. Paris: Éditions Fernand Nathan, 1964. * ''Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, André Vigneau: Trois photographes français''. Arles: Musée Réattu, 1965. ** Catalogue of an exhibition at Musée Réattu of Doisneau,

, and André Vigneau. * ''Épouvantables Épouvantails.'' (''Appalling Scarecrows''). Paris: Éditions Hors Mesure, 1965. * ''Le Royaume d’argot.'' (''The Kingdom of slang''). Text by Robert Giraud. Paris: Denoël, 1966. * ''Catherine la danseuse.'' (''Catherine. the dancer''). Text by Michèle Manceaux. Paris: Éditions Fernand Nathan, 1966. * ''L'École polytechnique.'' (''The Polytechnic''). Loos-lez-Lille: L. Danel, 1967. * ''L'Oeil objectif.'' (''The eye is a lens''). Marseille: Musée Cantini, 1968. ** ''Catalogue of an exhibition at Musée Cantini by Doisneau, Denis Brihat, Lucien Clergue, and Jean-Pierre Sudre''. * ''Le Royaume secret du milieu.'' (''The secret of the middle kingdom''). Text by Robert Giraud. Paris: Éditions Planète, 1969. * ''My Paris''. Text by Chevalier, Maurice. Macmillan Publishers. New York. 1972 * ''Le Paris de Robert Doisneau et Max-Pol Fouchet''. Les éditeurs français réunis. France. 1974 * ''L’Enfant à la Colombe''. (''The Child of the Dove''). Text by Sage, James. Editions of the Oak. Paris. La Loire. Denoël. Paris. 1978 * ''Le Mal de Paris''. (''The Evil of Paris''). Text by Lépidis, Clément. Arthaud Publications. Paris. Trois Secondes d’éternité. Contrejour. Paris. 1979 * ''Ballade pour Violoncelle et Chambre Noir''. (''A Song for a Cello and a dark room''). co-author: Baquet, Maurice. Herscher Editions. Paris. 1980 * ''Robert Doisneau''. Text by Chevrier, Jean-François. Belfond Editions. Paris. 1981 * ''Passages et Galeries du 19ème Siècle''. (''Passages and Galleries of the 19th Century''). Text by Delvaille, Bernard. Éditions Balland. Paris. 1982 * ''Doisneau''. Photopoche, Centre national de la photographie. France. 1983 * ''Paysages, Photographies.'' (''Landscapes''). (mission photography for DATAR) Éditions Hazan. Paris. 1985 * ''Un Certain Robert Doisneau''. Editions of the Oak. Paris. 1986 * ''Pour saluer Cendrars''. (''In honour of Cendrars''). Text by Camilly, J. Actes Sud. Arles, France. 1987 * ''60 portraits d/artists''. (''60 portraits of artists''). Text by Petit, Jean. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich. 1988 * ''Doisneau. Quotations by Doisneau collected by Maisonneuve Andre''. Éditions Hazan. Paris, France. 1988 * ''Bonjour Monsieur Le Corbusier''. (''Hello Mr Le Corbusier''). Text by Petit, Jean. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich. 1988 * ''A l’imparfait de l’objectif''. (''The imperfect object''). Belfond Editions. Paris. 1989 * ''Les Doigts Pleins d’encre''. (''Fingers full of ink''). Text by Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1989 * ''La Science de Doisneau''. (''The Science of Robert Doisneau''). Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1990 * ''Les Auvergnats''. (''People of the Auvergne''). With Dubois, Jaques. Nathan Images. Paris. 1990 * ''Lettres à un Aveugle sur des Photographies de Robert Doisneau''. (''Letters to a blind man about the Photographs of Robert Doisneau''). Text by Roumette, Sylvain. 1990 * ''Le Tout sur le tout/Le Temps qu’il fait''. (''All about the weather''). Paris. 1990 * ''Le Vin des rues''. Text by Robert Giraud. Paris: Denoël, 1990. * ''Rue Jacques Prévert''. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris, France. 1991 * ''La Compagnie des Zincs''. Text by Carradec, François Carradec. Seghers. Paris. 1991 * ''Les Grandes Vacances''. (''Summer vacation''). Text by Pennac, Daniel. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1992 * ''Mes gens de Plume''. Writings by Doisneau collected by Dubois, Y. Éditions La Martinière. France. 1992 * ''Les Enfants de Germinal''. (''The children of Germinal''). Text by Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1993 (See also Germinal (month). the downfall) * ''Doisneau 40/44''. Text by Ory, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1994 * ''La Vie de Famille''. (''Family life''). Text by Ory, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1994 * ''Robert Doisneau ou la Vie d’un photographie''. (''Robert Doisneau. the life of a photographer''. Text by Hamilton, Peter. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1995 * ''Mes Parisiens''. (''My Parisians''). Nathan Publications. Paris. 1997 * ''Palm Springs 1960.'' Paris: Flammarion, 2010. . With a foreword by Jean-Paul Dubois. * ''Robert Doisneau, comme un barbare.'' Text by André Pozner. Paris: Lux Editions, 2012. .

Exhibitions

* 1947 Salon de la Photo, Bibliothèque, Paris * 1951 Exhibition with Brassaї, Willy Ronis, and Izis, Museum of Modern Art, New York * 1960

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, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago. * 1965 Exhibition with Daniel Frasnay, Jean Lattès, Jeanine Niépce, Roger Pic, and Willy Ronis, Six Photographes et Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Exhibition with Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Vigneau, Musée Réattu, Arles; Solo Exhibition, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Exhibition with D. Brihat, J. P. Sudre, and L. Clergue, Musée Cantini de Marseilles * 1972 Solo Exhibition, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York * 1972 Exhibition with Edouard Boubat, Brassaї, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Izis, and Willy Ronis, French Embassy, Moscow * 1974 Solo Exhibition, University of California at Davis. Solo exhibition, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse * 1975 Solo Exhibition, Witkin Gallery, New York; Musée Réattu Arts Décoratifs, Nantes; Musée Réattu, Arles * 1975 Solo exhibition, Galerie et Fils, Brussels. Solo exhibition, fnac, Lyons; Group exhibition, Expression de l’humor, Boulogne Billancourt; Solo exhibition, Galerie Neugebauer, Basel * 1976 Exhibition with Brassaї, Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Izis, and Marc Riboud, Kraków * 1977 Solo Exhibition, Brussels; Exhibition with Guy la Querrec, Carlos Freire, Claude Raimond-Dityvon, Bernard Descamps, and Jean Lattès, Six Photographes en quête de banlieue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris * 1978 Solo Exhibition, Ne Bougeons plus, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris; Solo exhibition, Witkin Gallery, New York; Solo exhibition, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Charlon-sur-Saône * 1979 Solo Exhibition, Paris, les passants qui passent, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris * 1980 Solo Exhibition, Amsterdam * 1981 Solo Exhibition, Witkin Gallery, New York * 1982 Solo Exhibition, Portraits, Foundation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyons; Solo exhibition, French Embassy, New York; Solo exhibition, Robert Doisneau, Photographe de banlieue, Town Hall, Gentilly * 1982 Solo exhibition of 120 photographs, Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, Exhibition of portraits, Tokyo; Solo exhibition, Robert Doisneau, Photographie du dimanche, Institut Lumière, Lyon * 1986 Group Exhibition, De Vogue à femme, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles * 1987 Solo Exhibition, St.-Denis, Musée de St.-Denis; Solo exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto * 1988 Solo Exhibition, A Homage to Robert Doisneau, Villa Medicis, Rome * 1989 Solo Exhibition, Doisneau-Renault, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris * 1990 Solo Exhibition, La Science de Doisneau, Jardin des Plantes, Paris * 1992 Solo Exhibition, Robert Doisneau: A Retrospective, Modern Art Oxford * 1993 The Summerlee Heritage Trust, Coatbridge, Scotland; Royal Festival Hall, London; Manchester City Art Gallery; O Mes da Fotografie Festival, Convento do Beato, Lisbon, Portugal; Musée Carnavalet, Paris * 1994 "Hommage à Robert Doisneau", festival des Rencontres d'Arles, France * 1994 Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada; Galway Arts Centre, Ireland; Solo exhibition, A Homage to Robert Doisneau, Galerie du Château d’Eau à Toulouse; Solo exhibition, Doisneau 40/44, Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Lyon, Lyon, France; Solo exhibition, Robert Doisneau ou la désobéissance, Ecomusée de Fresnais * 1995 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; The Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry * 1996 Solo Exhibition, Montpellier Photo-Visions, Galerie Municipale de la Photographie; Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan * 2000 Exhibition, Gravités, Paris * 2000 Exhibition, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris * 2002 Exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile * 2003 Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary; Exhibition, Bucarest, Romania * 2003 Exhibition, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris * 2005 Solo Exhibition, Robert Doisneau from the Fictional to the Real, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York * 2005 Solo Exhibition, Robert Doisneau, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris * 2010 Solo Exhibitions, Robert Doisneau, Du metier a l'oeuvre, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2, Impasse Lebouis, 75014 Paris * 2010 Group Exhibition, Discoveries, Robert Doisneau, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York * 2010 Solo Exhibition, Robert Doisneau, the fisherman of images, the Space for Art of Caja Madrid Zaragoza, Aranjuez, Madrid * 2011 Group exhibition: Night, Robert Doisneau Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York * 2014 exhibition : The moments that he loved, sangsangmadang, Seoul * 2015 exhibition : Robert Doisneau, a photographer at the museum, Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, ParisRobert Doisneau, un photographe au Muséum, Grande Galerie de l'Évolution (retrieved 2015-10-26)
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Films about Doisneau

A short film, ''Le Paris de Robert Doisneau,'' was made in 1973. In 1992 the French actress and producer

Sabine Azéma Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Career Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the ...

made the film ''Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau.''

References

External links

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Robert Doisneau

Maison de la Photographie Robert-Doisneau

BBC News report on the auction of ''Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville''

Robert Doisneau: Seconds Snatched from Eternity
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doisneau, Robert 1912 births 1994 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French photographers People from Val-de-Marne Street photographers Humanist photographers Cooperatives in France