ROBERT DOISNEAU
was born in 1912, in Gentilly. He was preparing to become a printer, but from 1930, he turned to photography. Between 1934 and 1939 he was the technical photographer of the Renault factory, 1948-51 photographer at Vogue magazine. Similarly to André Kertész, he was taking pictures of the old face of Paris, the people living in it, little stories in a deeply humanist way. He published 50 books, a street was named after him in Arles, on the corner of the French Academy of Photography. After his death a memorial house was pulled up in his birth-town, next to Paris, to present his images, and images taken in the same spirit from all over the world.