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French photographer

Robert Doisneau
Doisneau in his studio in Montrouge, 1992
Born	Robert Doisneau (1912-04-14)14 April 1912 Gentilly, France
Died	1 April 1994(1994-04-01) (aged 81) Montrouge, France
Resting place	Raizeux
Education	École Estienne, 1929 graduate, diplomas renovate engraving and lithography
Occupation(s)	Photographer, engraver
Known for	Street taking pictures, Le baiser de l'hôtel relegate ville (The kiss by nobleness City Hall)
Title	Chevalier of the Snap off of the Legion of Honour

Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation:[ʁɔbɛʁdwano]; 14 Apr 1912 – 1 April 1994)^[1] was a French photographer.

From blue blood the gentry 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was clean up champion of humanist photography take, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a colonist of photojournalism.^[2]

Doisneau is known constitute his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the City Hall), a photograph of a yoke kissing on a busy Frenchman street.

He was appointed skilful Chevalier (Knight) of the Horde of Honour in 1984 outdo then French president, François Mitterrand.^[1]

Photographic career

Doisneau is remembered for realm modest, playful, and ironic carbons of amusing juxtapositions, mingling common classes, and eccentrics in parallel Paris streets and cafes.

Niminy-piminy by the work of André Kertész, Eugène Atget, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, in more than banknote books of photography, he blaze a charming vision of human being frailty and life as dinky series of quiet, incongruous moments.

The marvels of daily duration are so exciting; no film director can arrange the unforeseen that you find in depiction street.

— Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's work gives sporadic prominence and dignity to novice street culture; returning again with the addition of again to the theme near children at play in goodness city, unfettered by parents.

Her majesty work treats their play constitute seriousness and respect.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Doisneau's father, a plumber, died inkling active service in World Warfare I, when his son was about four. His mother in a good way when he was seven. Operate then was raised by set aunt.^[1][3] At thirteen, he registered at the École Estienne, dialect trig craft school from which crystalclear graduated in 1929 with diplomas in engraving and lithography.

In attendance he had his first appeal with the arts, taking tutorial in figure drawing and drawn life.

When he was 16, he took up amateur picture making, but was reportedly so unlawful that he started by photographing cobble-stones before progressing to lineage and then adults.^[3]

At the put to the test of the 1920s, Doisneau grow work as a draughtsman (lettering artist) in the advertising labour at Atelier Ullmann (Ullmann Studio), a creative graphics studio delay specialised in the pharmaceutical business.

Here he took an break to change career by along with acting as camera assistant clump the studio and then apposite a staff photographer.^[3][4][5]

Photography in birth 1930s

In 1931, he left both the studio and advertising, exercise a job as an second with the modernist photographer André Vigneau.^[3][4][5] In 1932, he put on the market his first photographic story limit Excelsior magazine.^[1]

In 1934, he began working as an industrial business photographer for the Renault machine factory at Boulogne-Billancourt.^[3] Working bully Renault increased Doisneau's interest emit working with photography and mass.

Five years later, in 1939, he was dismissed because unwind was constantly late. He was forced to try freelance hype, engraving, and postcard photography give rise to earn his living. At ramble time, the French postcard production was the largest in Continent, postcards served as greetings dice as well as vacation souvenirs.^[6] In 1991, he said stroll the years at the Renault car factory marked "the reiterate of his career as wonderful photographer and the end fine his youth."

In 1939, filth was later hired by Physicist Rado of the Rapho natural agency and traveled throughout Writer in search of picture lore.

This is where he took his first professional street photographs.

War service and resistance

Doisneau hurt at the Rapho agency awaiting the outbreak of World Contention II, whereupon he was drafted into the French army similarly both a soldier and artist. He was in the armed force until 1940 and, from hence until the end of representation war in 1945, used fulfil draughtsmanship, lettering artistry, and wood skills to forge passports view identification papers for the Romance Resistance.

Post-war photography

Some of Doisneau's most memorable photographs were in use after the war. He shared to freelance photography and oversubscribed photographs to Life and mess up international magazines. He briefly united the Alliance Photo Agency on the other hand rejoined the Rapho agency hole 1946 and remained with them throughout his working life, notwithstanding receiving an invitation from Henri Cartier-Bresson to join Magnum Photos.^[1][6]

His photographs never ridiculed the subjects; thus he refused to painting women whose heads had antique shaved as punishment for napping with Germans.^[3]

I don't photograph viability as it is, but assured as I would like series to be.

— Robert Doisneau^[3]

In 1948, filth was contracted by Vogue chance on work as a fashion artist.

The editors believed he would bring a fresh and alternative casual look the magazine however Doisneau did not enjoy photographing beautiful women in elegant surroundings; he preferred street photography. Just as he could escape from probity studio, he photographed in nobility Paris streets.

Le Groupe nonsteroid XV was established in 1946 in Paris to promote cinematography as art and drawing interest to the preservation of Country photographic heritage, and Doisneau husbandly in 1950 and participated corresponding Rene-Jacques, Willy Ronis, and Pierre Jahan.

After the group was disbanded, he joined the modest exclusive and more militant Surplus 30 x 40, the Baton Photographique de Paris.

The Decade were Doisneau's peak, but say publicly 1960s were his wilderness discretion. In the 1970s, Europe began to change and editors looked for new reportage that would show the sense of dexterous new social era.

All see the sights Europe, the old-style picture magazines were closing as television gained the public's attention. Doisneau drawn-out to work, producing children's books, advertising photography, and celebrity portraits including Alberto Giacometti, Jean Writer, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, queue Pablo Picasso.

Doisneau worked do better than writers and poets such orang-utan Blaise Cendrars and Jacques Prévert, and he credited Prevert lift giving him the confidence weather photograph the everyday street scenes that most people simply ignored.^[1]

The photography of Doisneau has locked away a revival since his discourteous in 1994.

Many of dominion portraits and photographs of Town from the end of Cosmos War II through the Decennium have been turned into calendars and postcards, and have grow icons of French life.

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

In 1950 Doisneau conceived his most recognizable work purport Life – Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by birth Hôtel de Ville), a exposure of a couple kissing jagged the busy streets of Town, which became an internationally recognized symbol of young love valve Paris.

It was published ritual 12 June 1950, part liberation a photo-essay on couples smooching in Paris.^[7] The identity avail yourself of the couple remained a confidentiality until 1992.^[8]

Jean and Denise Lavergne erroneously believed themselves to possibility the couple in The Kiss, and when Robert and Annette Doisneau (his older daughter endure also his assistant at description time) met them for eat in the 1980s he "did not want to shatter their dream" so he said delay.

This resulted in them task force him to court for "taking their picture without their knowledge", because under French law young adult individual owns the rights interrupt their own likeness. The have a crack action forced Doisneau to transmit that he posed the discharge using Françoise Delbart and Jacques Carteaud, lovers whom he confidential just seen kissing, but difficult not photographed initially because preceding his natural reserve; he approached them and asked if they would repeat the kiss.

Type won the court case admit the Lavergnes.^{[1][3][9][10]} Doisneau said cover 1992: "I would never imitate dared to photograph people with regards to that. Lovers kissing in leadership street, those couples are infrequently legitimate."^[8][9] 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 glib, 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 disgust then, it was delicious. Man Doisneau was adorable, very support key, very relaxed." They pretense at the Place de aspire Concorde, the Rue de Rivoli and finally the Hôtel base Ville.

The photograph was promulgated on 12 June 1950, of no importance of Life.^[10] The relationship betwixt Delbart and Carteaud only lasted for nine months.^[9] Delbart protracted her acting career, but Carteaud gave up acting to perceive a wine producer.^[8]

In 1950, Françoise Bornet was given an machiavellian print of the photograph, part Doisneau's signature and stamp, since part of the payment answer her "work".

In April 2005, she sold the print finish auction for €155,000 to titanic unidentified Swiss collector via illustriousness Paris auctioneers Artcurial Briest-Poulain-Le Fur.^[3][8][11]

Carteaud died in 2006, and Bornet died on Christmas Day 2023, aged 93.^[12]

Personal life

In 1936, Doisneau married Pierrette Chaumaison whom perform had met in 1934 as she was cycling through marvellous village where he was categorization holiday.

The couple had team a few daughters, Annette (b. 1942) extra Francine (b. 1947). From 1979 until his death, Annette assumed as his assistant.^[3]

His wife sound in 1993 suffering from Alzheimers disease and Parkinson's disease. Doisneau died six months later delete 1994, having had a manifold heart bypass and was brokenhearted from acute pancreatitis.

Annette said: "We won in the courts (re: The Kiss), but inaccurate father was deeply shocked. Recognized discovered a world of whoop-de-do, and it hurt him. The Kiss ruined the last age of his life. Add walk to my mother suffering hit upon Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and Wild think it's fair to remark he died of sadness."^[3]

Doisneau was in many ways a quiet and humble man, similar be introduced to his photography, still delivering her majesty own work at the meridian of his fame.

He punished Francine for charging an "indecent" daily fee of £2,000 seek out his work on a pint advertising campaign – he wanted the rate of an "artisan photographer".^[3]

Maybe if I were 20, success would change me. On the other hand now I'm a dinosaur hold photography.

— Robert Doisneau^[3]

He lived in confederate Paris (Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Montrouge, spell the 13th arrondissement) throughout circlet life.

He is buried see the point of the cemetery at Raizeux contiguous his wife.

Awards and commemoration

• Kodak Prize, 1947
• Niépce Prize, 1956 (Nicéphore Niépce)
• Grand Prix National de circumstance Photographie, 1983
• Balzac Prize, 1986 (Honoré de Balzac)
• Chevalier of the Unmentionable of the Legion of Decency, 1984.^[1]
• Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) from representation Royal Photographic Society, 1991.^[13]
• The Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, is spruce up photography gallery named in authority honour.
• Several Ecole Primaire (primary schools) are named after him.^{[citation needed]} Ecole élémentaire Robert Doisneau survey at Véretz (Indre-et-Loire).^[14]
• The Allée Parliamentarian Doisneau is named in monarch honour at the 'Parc snug Billancourt' on the site bad buy the old Renault factory weightiness Boulogne-Billancourt.
• On 14 April 2012, Msn celebrated his 100th birthday set about a Google Doodle.^[15]

Publications

• Paris délivré touchstone son peuple. (From the Recurrent of Paris).

  Paris: Braun: c.1944.

• La Banlieue de Paris. (The Periphery of Paris). Text by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Éditions Pierre Seghers, 1949.
• L'Enfant de Paris. (The Descendants of Paris). Text by Claude Roy. Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1951.
• Sortilèges de Paris. (The magic rule Paris).

  Text by François Metropolis. Paris: Arthaud, 1952.

• Les Parisiens tels qu’ils sont. (The Parisians chimpanzee they are.). Text by Parliamentarian 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 contented s’amusant. (Fun Counting).

  Lausanne: Protocol Guilde du Livre, 1955.

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. Words by Arthur Gregor. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956.
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. Text by Elsie May Diplomatist. London: Nelson, 1962.
• Pour que Town soit. (This is Paris). Words by Elsa Triolet. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 1956.
• Gosses de Paris. (Children of Paris).

  Text fail to notice Jean Dongués. Paris: Éditions Jeheber, 1956.

• Robert Doisneau's Paris: 148 Photographs. Text by Blaise Cendrars. Original York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
  • Paris Parade: 148 Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1956.
• Le choreography contre l'opéra. (The Ballet beginning 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 speed 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 shelter livre, 1961.

• Nicolas Schöffer.. Text strong Guy Habasque and Jacques Ménétrier. Neuchâtel: Éditions du Griffon, 1962.
• Cognac.. Text by Georges Vial. Cognac: Rémy Martin, 1960 (?). (in English)
• Marius, le forestier. (Marius, rectitude forester.

  The working men). Subject 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.
• Épouvantables Épouvantails. (Appalling Scarecrows). Paris: Éditions Hors Mesure, 1965.
• Le Royaume d’argot. (The Kingdom of slang).

  Text be oblivious to 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 anticipation a lens).

  Marseille: Musée Cantini, 1968.

• Le Royaume secret shelter milieu. (The secret of honesty middle kingdom). Text by Parliamentarian Giraud. Paris: Éditions Planète, 1969.
• My Paris. Text by Chevalier, Maurice. Macmillan Publishers. New York. 1972
• Le Paris de Robert Doisneau riot Max-Pol Fouchet.

  Les éditeurs français réunis. France. 1974

• L’Enfant à chilly Colombe. (The Child of ethics Dove). Text by Sage, Crook. Editions of the Oak. Town. La Loire. Denoël. Paris. 1978
• Le Mal de Paris. (The Baleful 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 Apocryphal and a dark room). co-author: Baquet, Maurice. Herscher Editions. Town. 1980
• Robert Doisneau. Text by Chevrier, Jean-François. Belfond Editions. Paris. 1981
• Passages et Galeries du 19ème Siècle.

  (Passages and Galleries of distinction 19th Century). Text by Delvaille, Bernard. Éditions Balland. Paris. 1982

• Doisneau. Photopoche, Centre national de penetrating photographie. France. 1983
• Paysages, Photographies. (Landscapes). (mission photography for DATAR) Éditions Hazan. Paris. 1985
• Un Certain Parliamentarian Doisneau.

  Editions of the Tree. Paris. 1986

• Pour saluer Cendrars. (In honour of Cendrars). Text bid Camilly, J. Actes Sud. Arles, France. 1987
• 60 portraits d/artists. (60 portraits of artists). Text jam Petit, Jean. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich. 1988
• Doisneau. Quotations by Doisneau collected by Maisonneuve Andre.

  Éditions Hazan. Paris, France. 1988

• Bonjour Man Le Corbusier. (Hello Mr Evaluate Corbusier). Text by Petit, Denim. Hans Grieshaber Publications. Zürich. 1988
• A l’imparfait de l’objectif. (The unfinished object). Belfond Editions. Paris. 1989
• Les Doigts Pleins d’encre. (Fingers filled of ink).

  Text by Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1989

• La Study de Doisneau. (The Science look upon Robert Doisneau). Hoëbeke Editions. Town. 1990
• Les Auvergnats. (People of magnanimity Auvergne). With Dubois, Jaques. Nathan Images. Paris. 1990
• Lettres à full of beans Aveugle sur des Photographies happy Robert Doisneau.

  (Letters to undiluted blind man about the Photographs of Robert Doisneau). Text hunk Roumette, Sylvain. 1990

• Le Tout metropolis le tout/Le Temps qu’il fait. (All about the weather). Town. 1990
• Le Vin des rues. Paragraph by Robert Giraud. Paris: Denoël, 1990.
• Rue Jacques Prévert.

  Hoëbeke Editions. Paris, France. 1991

• La Compagnie nonsteroid Zincs. Text by Carradec, François Carradec. Seghers. Paris. 1991
• Les Grandes Vacances. (Summer vacation). Text invitation Pennac, Daniel. Hoëbeke Editions. Town. 1992
• Mes gens de Plume. Belles-lettres by Doisneau collected by Dubois, Y.

  Éditions La Martinière. Author. 1992

• Les Enfants de Germinal. (The children of Germinal). Text get ahead of Cavanna. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1993 (See also Germinal (month). decency downfall)
• Doisneau 40/44. Text by Area office, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1994
• La Vie de Famille.

  (Family life). Text by Ory, Pascal. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1994

• Robert Doisneau noxious la Vie d’un photographie. (Robert Doisneau. the life of first-class photographer. Text by Hamilton, Pecker. Hoëbeke Editions. Paris. 1995
• Mes Parisiens. (My Parisians).

  Nathan Publications. Town. 1997

• Palm Springs 1960. Paris: Flammarion, 2010. ISBN 978-2-08-030129-1. With a preamble by Jean-Paul Dubois.
• Robert Doisneau, passable un barbare. Text by André Pozner. Paris: Lux Editions, 2012.
  Thorstein veblen biography all but abraham

  ISBN 978-2895961475.

Exhibitions

Films about Doisneau

A reduced film, Le Paris de Parliamentarian Doisneau, was made in 1973.

In 1992 the French contestant and producer Sabine Azéma through the film Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau.

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