Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville, a photograph of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Doisneau was appointed a Chevalierof the Legion of Honour in 1984...
Robert Doisneau quotes about
photography laughing people
When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.
photography lying made
Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.
photography two add
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
photography writing answers
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
photography struggle animal
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.
movie photography actors
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
photography photographer ifs
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
add hundredth perhaps second three
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
education
To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.
hate i-hate collectors
I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.
winning youth ends
To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.
animal technique photographer
The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.
imagination people sophisticated
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
finishing-it giving advice
I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.