Un certain Robert Doisneau : La Très Périodique histoire d'un photographe racontée par lui-même

by Robert Doisneau

Text: French

173 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 1999

About the author

He was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984.