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A Grittier Side of Paris, from Doisneau's Lens

New York Times (blog) - Mar 4, 2010
But at “Robert Doisneau: Du Métier à L'Oeuvre” (“From Craft to Art”), showing through April 18, don't expect to see the photographer's ubiquitous shot of a ...

Historical photo exhibit captures everyday people in the act of reading
North County Times - Feb 24, 2010
It began with a successful exhibit of black and white photos by Robert Doisneau several years ago. "That exhibit, which encapsulated the '30s and '40s in ...

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Robert Doisneau 1912-1994 (Icons)

by: Jean-Claude Gaufrand
Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless 35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portray everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing fleeting personal emotions in a public context. Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's life and career, providing a wonderful introduction to the work of this seminal photographer.
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Parisians: Photographs by Peter Turnley ; Forewords by Edouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau ; Text by Adam Gopnik and Peter Turnley

by: Peter Turnley, Adam Gopnik
It is a beautiful collection of images of the life in Paris. Seeing the pictures make you yearn to go there to take your own pictures.
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Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art

by: Jean-Francois Chevrier
Nowhere is the breezy and urbane romance of Paris conjured as memorably as in the photography of Robert Doisneau (1912-1994). A gentle minstrel of visual anecdote, Doisneau interpreted the city's charms in an iconography that both natives and Francophiles instantly recognize: the young hip couple stealing a spontaneous kiss at a busy intersection, the gendarme chatting with a mother while her kid tiptoes along a riverbank bench, the sweetly melancholic abandoned merry-go-round in the rain and the entire pageant of Parisian life mingling at cafes, bus shelters and on the banks of the Seine.
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Robert Doisneau: Retrospective

by: Peter Hamilton
Robert Doisneau's photography is known all over the world. This volume encompasses its entire range from 1929 to 1922, placing the work within the context of its time. The reader is offered an introduction to Doisneau's art and an unforgettable selection of his pictures. 107 photographs. North American tour in 1994.
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