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Robert
Doisneau 1912-1994 (Icons)
by Jean-Claude Gaufrand
Paperback from Taschen
ISBN: 3822816124
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Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless
35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged,
and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portray everyday people (in
everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing
fleeting personal emotions in a public context. Doisneau's gift was the
ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little
epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's life
and career, providing a wonderful introduction to the work of this seminal
photographer. |
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Robert
Doisneau: Paris: New Compact Edition
by Robert Doisneau
Paperback from Flammarion
Published: 2010-10-26
ISBN: 2080301179
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Doisneau's work immortalized the magic of Paris for posterity; this
stunning compact edition, edited by the artist's daughters, includes over
six hundred photographs. Doisneau is celebrated for his ability to infuse
images of daily life with poetic nuances that have brought enduring popular
appeal to his photojournalism. This collection pairs aesthetically-composed
photographs alongside snapshots that offer a more personal account of Doisneau's
Paris. Organized thematically, this book--unprecedented in scope--gives
an entrancing tour through the gardens of Paris, along the Seine, and amid
the crowds of Parisians who live in and define their bewitching city. "An
enchanting cross-section of Parisian life by one of the photographers who
best captured its many charms." --The New York Times, 2005 |
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Robert
Doisneau: Retrospective
by Peter Hamilton
Paperback from I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN: 1850435650
Robert Doisneau's photography is known all over the world. This volume
encompasses its entire range from 1929 to 1922, placing the work within
the context of its time. The reader is offered an introduction to Doisneau's
art and an unforgettable selection of his pictures. 107 photographs. North
American tour in 1994. |
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Paris
by Robert Doisneau
Hardcover from Flammarion
Published: 2005-11-15
ISBN: 2080304917
As a photographer, Robert Doisneau is known for his ability to infuse
images of daily life with poetic nuance that imbued his photojournalism
with an enduring popular appeal. The unprecedented scope of this collection
provides the opportunity to study his more composed, aesthetically structured
images alongside his snapshots, which offer a more anecdotal account of
Doisneau's Paris. Organized thematically, the book leads us on an entrancing
tour through the gardens of Paris, along the Seine, and through the crowds
of Parisians who define their beloved city. More than 600 photographs-many
rare, forgotten, and previously unpublished-are assembled in this beautiful
volume to create a unique portrait of Paris. From toddlers scrambling to
cross rue de Rivoli to fresh-faced accordionists, from elegant dog walkers
to exuberant roller skaters, and from the indelible kiss in front of the
Hétel de Ville to cyclists beneath the Eiffel Tower, the magic of
Paris in black and white is a timeless treasure. The photographs, edited
by Doisneau's daughter, are complemented by citations from the photographer
himself, which reveal his profound fascination with the city where he lived
and worked. |
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Doisneau
Portfolio
Paperback from Taschen
ISBN: 3822834718
TASCHEN portfolios feature high quality prints that beg to be
framed. Tucked in each portfolio are 14 large-format reproductions, each
with a brief description. Guaranteed to brighten any day, they also make
great gifts for art lovers! |
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Doisneau:
Portraits of the Artists
by Robert Doisneau
Hardcover from Flammarion
Published: 2008-11-25
ISBN: 2080300644
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During the golden age when Montparnasse was teeming with artists, Robert
Doisneau gained remarkable access to the artists working in Paris from
1937 onwards, and he visited their studios and caught them in various private
moments: working, reflecting, and even playing with their children. This
book, which includes some previously unpublished photographs, shares Doisneau's
intimate view on the work and lives of these artists. Many remain famous--Picasso,
David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp,
Le Corbusier, Foujita--while others have fallen into obscurity, perhaps
one day to be rediscovered. Regardless of the artist's social status--whether
major figure of the day or struggling newcomer--Doisneau approached each
subject with the same humble eye. His signature black-and-white photographs
capture the nostalgia of the period and bear witness to these artists in
the act of creating some of the world's finest art. This book, published
in cooperation with Doisneau's daughters, is a fascinating document of
the daily lives of artists by one of the world's most famous and popular
photographers. |
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Robert
Doisneau: Palm Springs 1960
by Robert Doisneau
Hardcover from Flammarion
Published: 2010-09-07
ISBN: 2080301292
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A previously unpublished collection of Robert Doisneau's color photography
provides a unique opportunity to revisit the early years of one of America's
legendary holiday destinations. In 1960, Robert Doisneau was invited by
Fortune magazine to cover Palm Springs, the hottest travel destination
of the day. Renowned as a playground for the rich and famous, as well as
for a silver-haired and well-heeled clientele, it was a world of swimming
pools awash with bobbing beehives, martini-fueled parties, and relaxed
games of golf, all unfolding against a desert backdrop. There, Doisneau
took hundreds of photographs, twenty-three of which were published in the
magazine. The rest have been rediscovered in his archives and one hundred
are featured here for the first time. Doisneau is best known for his black
and white portraits of Parisian street scenes. This rare color collection--which
is supplemented with a facsimile reproduction of Doisneau's original Fortune
article--offers a new perspective on his photographic legacy. Accompanying
these nostalgic images are extracts from the photographer's personal correspondence--small
masterpieces of derision and self-derision in which he describes being
marooned in the "world capital of winter golf"--and an equally amusing
introduction written by award-winning French novelist Jean-Paul Dubois. |
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ROBERT
DOISNEAU: FROM CRAFT TO ART
Hardcover from Steidl
Published: 2010-08-04
ISBN: 3869300256
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Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is one of the most important representatives
of humanistic photography. For many years he has been looked upon as the
minstrel of picturesque Paris, with a charming eye and a unique sense of
the unexpected visual anecdote. As a result he has been championed as a
poet of the "pure" moment. Doisneau's oeuvre is however much deeper and
complex than that reputation suggests.
Contemplating his work as a whole, one discovers Doisneau's pleasure
in creating a language to capture the treasures of everyday life. The sensitivity
and naturalism of his approach slowly reveal themselves: his images of
the modest architecture of the Parisian suburbs for example display gravity,
irony and even a degree of hard-heartedness. |
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Robert
Doisneau: A Photographer's Life
by Peter Hamilton
Hardcover from Abbeville Press
ISBN: 0789200201
Perhaps best known as the creator of images exemplyfing our romantic
notion of Paris, Robert Doisneau is, in fact, a key figure in the history
of documentary photography. He photographs everything from local weddings
to heads of states, from a homeless drunk asleep over a subway grate to
a masked ball in a Venetian palace, recording the marginal and transitory
zones recognized by Baudelaire and later by Benjamin as the symbolic, shifting
landscapes of Modernism.
Drawing not only upon Doisneau's previously unpublished archives but
also on conversations with the photographer in his final years, Peter Hamilton
examines every aspect of his work, including the techniques he used. In
a charming narrative, Hamilton traces Doisneau's career, emphasizing his
periods of engagement with the birth of photojournalism in the 1930s, humanist
social realism in the 1940s and 1950s, and with montage and art brut in
the 1960s. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs in duotone, many published
for the first time, this book is a rare find that both enlightens and delights.
Robert Doisneau: A Photographer's Life covers the renowned work
of the French photographer famous for the 1950 picture Le Baiser de
le Hotel de Ville. This frequently reproduced portrait of an attractive
couple frozen in an embrace while Parisian city life whirls around them
is an archetypal emblem of romance. It's pretty surprising to learn that
Doisneau hired young actors for his entire kissing series; nevertheless,
the moment rings undeniably true. Maybe it's his beginnings in advertising
or his fashion work for Vogue that lend his images equal parts of
real life and theater.
Doisneau (1912-1994) spent his lifetime recording life in France. With
his combination of photojournalism and art, he captured nightclubs, the
Parisian working-class suburbs, national monuments, weddings, and famous
folk like Picasso. Some of the most riveting pictures are of resistance
fighters in the midst of the Occupation--young men in civilian clothes,
sportcoats and all, standing with guns behind homemade barricades. Accompanying
the hundreds of pictures are in-depth chapters that discuss the different
periods in Doisneau's life and work. From his childhood, through the war,
and on to his fascination with the banlieues (suburbs), the well-researched
text gives invaluable insight into this influential photographer's practice.
--J.P.Cohen |
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Robert
Doisneau: Three Seconds of Eternity
by Robert Doisneau
Paperback from Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN: 3829600712
"My photographs are completely subjective. They show the world as I
would like it to be at all times. And, for me, this world exists ... because
I create photographic proof of it." Robert Doisneau became France's most
popular photographer. Most people are familiar with his most famous pictures:
the lovers kissing in the town square, or Picasso with croissants for fingers,
or the couple looking at an antique dealer's shopwindow. In his shots of
everyday scenes Doisneau pays affectionate homage to life in the small
towns and suburbs of France. Three Seconds of Eternity, first published
in 1979, remains the classic Doisneau book, now available again. The photographer
himself not only selected the pictures, but also wrote a celebrated essay
that is a vivid, amusing account of his career as a photographer, his encounter
with novelist Blaise Cendrars, and the "average folk" he portrayed with
gentle humor and compassion. |
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Doisneau
Paris
by Brigitte Ollier
(Paperback -- June )
Robert
Doisneau: A Photographer's Life
by Peter Hamilton
(Hardcover -- November )
Doisneau
by Peter Hamilton, David Elliott, Robert Doisneau
from Cartago
ISBN: 1900826240 |
Robert Doisneau 2012Calendar
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Robert Doisneau: Retrospective
by Peter Hamilton, Museum Of Modern Art, Robert Doisneau
from I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN: 1850435650
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Three Seconds of Eternity
by Robert Doisneau (Photographer), Robert Stecker (Introduction)
(Paperback -- October )
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