Robert Doisneau

An affordable introduction to the great French modernist and chronicler of Paris

Famous artists and humble laborers; nightlife and early-morning streets; the horrors of war and the joys of childhood: French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-94) tirelessly captured the polarities and contradictions of Paris with his Leica. Robert Doisneau offers an overview of the beloved photographer's masterful series in an affordable package. This hardcover volume features iconic works such as his Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, as well as lesser-known images such as Doisneau's depictions of Jacob Riis-like squalor in a reemerging postwar Paris. A section is devoted to Doisneau's portraits of some of the most famous 20th-century personalities who called Paris home or were just passing through. These include portraits of Albert Camus, André Malraux, Jacques Prévert, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Léger, Saul Steinberg, Jean Tinguely and others.

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Robert Doisneau

An affordable introduction to the great French modernist and chronicler of Paris

Famous artists and humble laborers; nightlife and early-morning streets; the horrors of war and the joys of childhood: French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-94) tirelessly captured the polarities and contradictions of Paris with his Leica. Robert Doisneau offers an overview of the beloved photographer's masterful series in an affordable package. This hardcover volume features iconic works such as his Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, as well as lesser-known images such as Doisneau's depictions of Jacob Riis-like squalor in a reemerging postwar Paris. A section is devoted to Doisneau's portraits of some of the most famous 20th-century personalities who called Paris home or were just passing through. These include portraits of Albert Camus, André Malraux, Jacques Prévert, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Léger, Saul Steinberg, Jean Tinguely and others.

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An affordable introduction to the great French modernist and chronicler of Paris

Famous artists and humble laborers; nightlife and early-morning streets; the horrors of war and the joys of childhood: French photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-94) tirelessly captured the polarities and contradictions of Paris with his Leica. Robert Doisneau offers an overview of the beloved photographer's masterful series in an affordable package. This hardcover volume features iconic works such as his Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, as well as lesser-known images such as Doisneau's depictions of Jacob Riis-like squalor in a reemerging postwar Paris. A section is devoted to Doisneau's portraits of some of the most famous 20th-century personalities who called Paris home or were just passing through. These include portraits of Albert Camus, André Malraux, Jacques Prévert, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Léger, Saul Steinberg, Jean Tinguely and others.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788836649747
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Publication date: 06/07/2022
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 9.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France’s most distinguished experts on photography. An active photographer since 1960, he has also made a name for himself as a historian, journalist and critic, with numerous publications. He is the author of the TASCHEN books Paris mon amour (1999), Doisneau (2003), Brassaï (2004), Ronis (2005) and Paris, Portrait of a City (2011).

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