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Title: Doisneau Paris by Brigitte Ollier ISBN: 3-927258-34-2 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Living in the Shadow of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Comment: Robert Doisneau is probably best known for his photo of a couple kissing-on-the-fly on a Paris street. Another of his greeting card images is of a line of boys, back to the camera, peeing at urinals, with a white dove on the head of one of the boys.
Doisneau was one of the very best "street photographers" ever, who documented Paris life from the 1940s to the 1970s in classic black-and-white. His ability to capture candid moments was first rate. His photos maintained a whimsical mood, for the most part, which probably kept him from being as famous as his contemporary Henri Cartier-Bresson. Personally, I think he was better than Cartier-Bresson, in terms of timing, composition, and consistency. But Cartier-Bresson emphasised subjects with more gravity, so his pictures get the nod of history, and deservatively so. (See Cartier-Bresson's monumental retrospective "The Man, The Image, & the World" -- Thames & Hudson 2003) But Doisneau documented the ordinary, with a sense of gentle irony, so his imagery gets relegated to greeting cards.
As a portrait of Paris, as a representation of Doiseau's work, and as a lesson in photographic timing and composition, this book is better than you could ask for. The opening essay by Brigitte Ollier is overly emotional (overly French?), though informative. The pictures, however, speak for themselves, and I'd bet Ollier would be the first to say so.
The price of this book is a bargain, with 665 pages of some of the best photographs by a photographer who deserves more than greeting card consideration. Truth be told (and as a HUGE fan of Cartier-Bresson), I didn't know how absolutely incredible Doisneau was until I got this book. So you should get it, too.
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Title: Robert Doisneau: A Photographer's Life by Peter Hamilton ISBN: 0789200201 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Robert Doisneau 1912-1994 by Jean-Claude Gaufrand ISBN: 3822816124 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Atget Paris by Laure Beaumont-Maillet, David Britt ISBN: 3927258075 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Henry Cartier-Bresson-A Propos De Paris by Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0821224964 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective by Philippe Arbaizar, Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Peter Galassi, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Jean Leymarie, Serge Toubiana, Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0500542678 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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