Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art

From Craft to Art

Author: Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is one of the most important representatives of humanistic photography. Contemplating his work as a whole, one discovers Doisneau's pleasure in creating a language to capture the treasures of everyday life.

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Agnes Sire has been the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris since its creation in 2003. Agnes Sire has been the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris since its creation in 2003.

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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. Doisneau was possessed of both lightness of touch and spontaneity, as a result of which he has been sometimes championed as a photographer of the "pure" moment. But his ocular touch is even lighter than that suggests--his images are not so much "seized" as "netted." Accompanying the Fondation Cartier-Bresson's exhibition of around 100 prints from the Doisneau estate, From Craft to Art presents these treasures alongside a new version of Jean-Fran