This seminal volume–produced in shut collaboration together with his estate–is the official and most complete reference to Robert Doisneau’s pictures of Paris. Robert Doisneau’s mesmerizing black-and-white pictures immortalize the magic of Paris, with its mix of dreamy nostalgia and busy modernity.

Deeply fascinated by his metropolis, the photographer possessed an uncanny potential to seize poetry in peculiar moments—from the jubilation of the Liberation in 1944, to a gaggle of schoolboys crossing the road, or the well-known kiss in entrance of the Resort de Ville for cyclists. Underneath the Eiffel Tower – and it was an eye fixed for humor and liveliness that endowed his work with enduring widespread enchantment.

The 560 photographs on this definitive quantity—curated by his daughters Annette Doisneau and Francine Derodel—are enhanced with quotations from Doisneau’s private notebooks.

Robert Doisneau: Paris
Annette Doisneau and Francine Derodel
£35
Flammarion

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