- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.; First Edition edition (2 Jun 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789200201
- ISBN-13: 978-0789200204
- Product Dimensions: 32.5 x 24.6 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,436,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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Drawing not only upon Doisneau's previously unpublished archives but also on conversations with the photographer in his final years, Peter Hamilton examines every aspect of his work, including the techniques he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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I recommend this book for the fantastically atmospheric pictures of Paris from one of the photographers who helped create the romantic imagery of the city as well as the easy to read commentary on Doisneau's life and work.
A man with an eye for the extraordinary sights in ordinary situations and for whom the street was a studio.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful!
6 Jan 2003
Format:Hardcover
This book is a marvelously comprehensive collection of Doisneau's work. The photographs are beautifully reproduced, and reflect the character of a city and its people with humor, pathos, and great dignity. The text is clear, concise, and extremely insightful, with some extraordinary quotes and commentary from not only Doisneau himself, but other gifted artists of his time. A book to treasure!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Delightful!
2 Jan 1999
Format:Hardcover
Delightful photographs in fine reproduction with interesting and readable insight into the man behind the camera.
2 of 48 people found the following review helpful
It was terrible!
15 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
It was really boring and I didn't like how the author rambled on and on about nothing important at all. It was the most awful book I have ever read.
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