synopsis
Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Claude-Bernard gallery from April 1 to June 1, 2010, presenting the little-known color photographs of Robert Doisneau who went to California in 1960 for Fortune magazine with the mission of photographing the lives of the rich in Palm Springs. The result is fascinating!; text by Jean-Paul Dubois.
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Publisher : Flammarion
2010
158 pages
20 x 20 cm
2010
158 pages
20 x 20 cm
about Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was born in 1912 in Gentilly, in the suburbs of Paris.
A grey youth behind the macramé curtains of a lower-middle-class family, he learned the trade of lithographer at the Estienne school at the age of 15 and entered working life by designing pharmaceutical labels.
It was with André Vigneau, where he became the young operator in 1931, that he discovered the world of artistic creation that would drive him from then on. Four years in the advertising department of the Renault factories, ending with a dismissal for repeated delays, allowed him to access the coveted status of independent photographer.
"All my life I had fun, I made my own little theater."
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau
The war broke out, putting a brutal brake on his projects. In the euphoria of the post-war years, although he was subject to orders on a daily basis for material reasons, he accumulated the images that would make his success, stubbornly circulating "where there is nothing to see", favouring fleeting moments, tiny moments of happiness illuminated by the rays of the sun on the asphalt of cities.
When he died in April 1994, he left behind some 450,000 negatives that tell the story of his time with a tender and benevolent amusement that should not, however, mask the depth of the reflection, the real insolence in the face of power and authority and the irreducible spirit of independence.
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Publisher : Flammarion
2010
2010