Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville, a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Doisneau was appointed a Chevalierof the Legion of Honour in 1984...
Robert Doisneau quotes about
want elation rich
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
ideas path stammering
I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.
memories two perfect
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.
photography writing answers
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
photograph
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
photography struggle animal
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.
beautiful treasure photographer
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
movie photography actors
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
photography photographer ifs
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
animal technique photographer
The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.