April 26, 2005

Robert Doisneau

This image is in the news:

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Robert Doisneau, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville,1950

We need to remember that it is part of an interesting and humorous body of photography

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Robert Doisneau, The Cellist,1957

Most of the work is street photography within the tradition of Brassaï, Kertesz, Atget, and Cartier-Bresson:

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Robert Doisneau, Un Regard Oblique,1948


Doisneau's work was primarily a series of snapshots that documented life in the suburbs of Paris in the 1950s that were produced with Rolleiflex and Leica cameras.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at April 26, 2005 11:34 AM | TrackBack
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