Robert DoisneauA Photographer

Photojournalism

• He was born on April 14th, 1912 and

died on April, 1st 1994. He was a

French photographer. In the

1930s he used a Leica on the streets

of

Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson w

ere pioneers of photojournalism.

The streets of Paris

Training

As a young man Doisneau attended the Estienne

School in Paris .

He learned there the arts of the trade

but he always claimed that the streets of the workin

g-class neighbourhood of Gentilly provided his most

important

schooling.

WORK

• He studied engraving and

lithography and went to work at

advertising photographs in 1930.. 

• He began working for André Vigneau

in 1931 as his cameraman, and then

joined the Renault factory in

Billancourt in 1934 working as an

industrial and advertising

photographer.

• His most famous

picture is 'Kiss in

front of the Palace

of City Hall' (1950).