Robert Doisneau : a photographer's life / Peter Hamilton.

Main entry:

Hamilton, Peter, 1947- author.

Title & Author:

Robert Doisneau : a photographer's life / Peter Hamilton.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Abbeville Press, 1995.
©1995

Description:

384 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-378) and index.
Childhood : 1912-1929 -- Apprenticeship : 1929-1939 -- The war : 1939-1944 -- After the war : 1945-1955 -- La Banlieue de Paris : 1945-1950 -- Pecheur d'Images : 1945-1960 -- The complicities : 1945-1960 -- Changing perspectives : 1961-1978 -- Return to the Banlieue : 1978-1994.

Summary:

The first authorized biography available, Robert Doisneau provides an intimate rich account of the life of the French photographer who captured the streets and elusive spaces of Paris as the city entered the modern era. Drawing not only upon Doisneau's previously unpublished archives but also on conversations with the photographer in his final years, this book examines every aspect of Doisneau's work, including the techniques he used. Emphasized are his periods of engagement with the birth of photojournalism in the 1930s; with humanist social realism in the 1940s and 1950s; and with montage and art brut in the 1960s. The photographs, made by Doisneau on his own and while working for Vogue, Life, and other well-known magazines, reveal how the familiar is swept away, a theme germane to city-dwellers everywhere.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0789200201
9780789200204

Subject:

Doisneau, Robert.
Doisneau, Robert, 1912-
Photographers France Biography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographes France Biographies.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photographers
Foto's.
France
Photography

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Added entries:

Fuller, Celia, book designer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122119
Call No.: ID TR140.D658 H3; ID:96-B849
Status: Available

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