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| Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), 1950 |
Robert Doisneau was born in 1922 in Gentilly, a suburb of Paris. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was pioneers of photojournalism with Henri Cartier-Bresson. Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.
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| La gargouille de Notre Dame, 1969 |
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| La diagonale des marches, Paris 1953 |
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| La dactylo du Vert Galant, Paris 1947 |
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| Le plongeur du Pont d'Iena, Paris 1945 |
Some of Doisneau's most memorable photographs were taken after the war. He returned to freelance photography and sold photographs to Life and other international magazines.
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| Amour et barbelés |
In 1948 he was contracted by Vogue to work as a fashion photographer. The editors believed he would bring a fresh and more casual look the magazine but Doisneau didn’t enjoy photographing beautiful women in elegant surroundings; he preferred street photography. When he could escape from the studio, he photographed ever more in the streets of Paris.
"I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.
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