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Robert Doisneau.
From Craft to Art.
Photographs by Robert Doisneau. Text by Jean-Francois Chevrier.
Steidl, 2010.
160 pp.,
Illustrations throughout,
6x9".
Publisher's Description
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-
François Chevrier’s classic 1983 essay on the photographer,which
describes Doisneau’s knack for capturing “the shining melancholy
that separates an individual from the crowd.”
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