- Birthday
- 1912-04-14
- Deathday
- 1994-04-01
- Place of Birth
- Gentilly, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Robert Doisneau
ActingBiography
Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. Doisneau is known for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the City Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing on a busy Parisian street. He was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984 by then French president, François Mitterrand. Doisneau is remembered for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, ...
