robert doisneau a photographer. photojournalism he was born on april 14th, 1912 and died on april,...
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Robert DoisneauA Photographer
Photojournalism
• He was born on April 14th, 1912 and
died on April, 1st 1994. He was a
French photographer. In the
1930s he used a Leica on the streets
of
Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson w
ere pioneers of photojournalism.
The streets of Paris
Training
As a young man Doisneau attended the Estienne
School in Paris .
He learned there the arts of the trade
but he always claimed that the streets of the workin
g-class neighbourhood of Gentilly provided his most
important
schooling.
WORK
• He studied engraving and
lithography and went to work at
advertising photographs in 1930..
• He began working for André Vigneau
in 1931 as his cameraman, and then
joined the Renault factory in
Billancourt in 1934 working as an
industrial and advertising
photographer.
• His most famous
picture is 'Kiss in
front of the Palace
of City Hall' (1950).