Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art

by Jean-François Chevrier

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3869300256
• ISBN13: 9783869300252
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.5"