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Doisneau, Robert

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Personal name headingDoisneau, Robert
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Birth date1912-04-14
Death date1994-04-01
Place of birthGentilly (France)
Place of deathMontrouge (France)
Field of activityPhotojournalism Photography
Profession or occupationPhotographers Photojournalists
Found inLa banlieue de Paris. Texte de ... sur 130 photos de Robert Doisneau, 1949
Doisneau Paris, c1996: jkt. (Robert Doisneau; d. 1994)
Robert Doisneau's Paris, 2005: p.[395] (born Gentilly, 14 April 1912; died 1 April 1994)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1912)
Wikipedia, May 13, 2014 (Robert Doisneau; born 14 April 1912 in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Paris; died 1 April 1994 in Montrouge, Paris; photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984)