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Street photography by Robert Doisneau

This week I will dedicate it with emotion to the great photographers of all history, I love to discover in art wonderful characters who have managed to weave the cultural framework in this case the sixth art photography considered an effective tool to freeze unique and particular moments of all cultures. Today we will continue with the life of Robert Doisneau recognized as one of the most exceptional street photographers of all time. Join me in learning more about the life and work of this incredible character.

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This photographer born in the city of Paris, is one of the most prominent urban portrait artists of the twentieth century learned the trade by their own means by researching and imitation seeing other photographers of the time and before him.

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Dedicated to the detailed observation of the growing Paris, he developed the unique ability to know at what moment to capture the essence of passers-by and other particularities typical of cities.

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His life was marked by the forced disappearance of his plumber's father who had to enlist during the First World War where he unfortunately fell in battle. So little Doisneau had to work since he was a child to solve economic problems in his home.

Full of mixed emotions and quite shy at the age of 17, he acquires his first camera, a Rolleiflex, a camera that would help him express himself in a more spontaneous and less shy way.according to the same photographer, he felt that the camera was the perfect escape, the tranquillity and the way to drain the feelings that he had kept for a long time as a result of his rough childhood.

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So I spend more than 30 years taking photos with his Rolleiflex, one of his first jobs was in a Renault factory where he stood out as an industrial and advertising photographer, where he would be a short time due to his fondness for the streets, so he spent long hours again taking advantage of every moment to capture everything he could of people, usually his photos were loaded with emotions and casual gestures of the people, he located from very early in the morning a crowded place and spent long hours of the day capturing spontaneous moments, catalogued by many art critics as the poet of pure moments.

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After showing notoriety before the photographic scene of France and other European countries, he managed to capture under the same scheme of work consecrated artists like Picasso, or Giacometti, with whom he shared long hours until he could capture the most spontaneous and natural essence of many artists.

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Just as several painters did who used the Paris night scene as a pictorial reference, Doisneau approached the nightclubs as a jazz and cabaret club where he would meet personalities like Sartre or Cocteau, whom he photographed at some point, the reality is that Doisneau had little concern for the intellectual and artistic scene, he preferred to approach the Popular classes, this earned him the early recognition of many who saw in him an incredible strength to transmit the best of the street.

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Shortly before his death he was immersed in a legal problem due to one of his most emblematic photos, after the Second World War Life magazine hired him to make a series dedicated to the end of the war, the photo would be the famous kiss a couple in the middle of the street, shortly after having taken this photograph, the young couple sued the photographer for having his image illegally, in addition to ensuring that they had received money from the photographer to pose in front of the lenses of his camera.

Regardless of this curious fact that at the end remains unresolved, and assuming that it is true, I do not believe that all the work of this photographer is arranged his work transcends all the limits of the world.

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