Hamilton, Peter, 1947- author.

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

First edition.

New York : Abbeville Press, 1995.
©1995

384 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 33 cm

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 Drawing not only upon Doisneau's previously unpublished archives but also on conversations with the photographer in his final years, this book examines every aspect of Doisneau's work, including the techniques he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.

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

Biography
Biographies.

Fuller, Celia, book designer.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 122119
Cote: ID TR140.D658 H3; ID:96-B849
Statut: Disponible