Famous Series on El’Infancia or Binds in D’On others not recognized, more than 350 photographs of Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) are exhibited as of this Thursday, April 17 at the Mailol Museum, the largest retrospective dedicated to this figure of humanist photography for 20 years in Paris.
“A lifetime of work,” summarizes his daughter, Annette Doisneau, who selected them, with his sister Francine Deroudille and Commissioner Isabelle Benoit, among the 450,000 in the Robert Doisneau collection.
“Lago’es Sabine Azéma”, S’ella enthusiasm in front of a black and white photo of the French act that “was one of his father’s ‘very close’ with (the cellist) Maurice Baquet and (the poet) Jacques Prévert”.
“He had gone to photograph her on the set of ‘ONE SUNDAY IN THE FIELD From Bertrand Tavernier and, from there, it was his sunbeam, “he adds.
Work or family life, “I’en only wonderful memories with my father, who was also a great narrator and who wrote” when he traveled through the city of light “with good shoes,” said the one who “worked and traveled 15 years” with Robert Doisneau, whose she s’ocupado “l’Agenda, impossible to hold.”
Flower chestnuts
At the beginning of spring, the vision of the chestnut trees in Flores, which the photographer spoke in a book “Wondering how many times he would see them reflect”, “Hugs him,” she trusts.
Entitled Given momentsL’Expos “Traza L’Alna from her career from 1934 to 1992 by rejecting a dozen themes, known and unknown,” explains Isabelle Benoit.
“We found its iconic series about children, binds, streets, but also its passage as an employee in the Vogue newspaper. In contrast, 80 photographs, in a section entitled” Gravity “, which shows how I knew how to capture the shallow waters of French society in the 1940s and 50,” he adds.
Whatever the subject, “these are days, says Robert Doisneau, where we are the simple fact of seeing as true happiness.”
L’eaching, which is celebrated until October 12, helps to better understand how this poet of Maussades and the daily life of Anonymous plays the art of taking as Jacques Prévert played with words.
Gules d’E drunk, prostitution, homeless … the aspect that is related to those who populate these universes seems to be full of fun benevolence.
Collages
The exhibition also highlights the aspects of the work of Robert Doisneau is almost never shown, such as collages and photographic assemblies with surreal accents or his work as advertising and `’elustration of magazines and pocket books.
This “renewed vision of his work” is revealed through “photographic sequences that reflect his patience and his participating work, because it was based on the multitude of people who photographed,” said Isabelle Benoit.
Witness of this sense of the observation, a series of black photos in white on July 14, Rue des canettes in Paris, in 1949: photography to the people all day they end, at dusk, by the famous “last waltz.”
Flag
Among his photographs little or not known, the de’artistas such as Picasso, wrapped in a silky orange fabric, a submerging vision of Giacometti in his workshop, Niki de Saint Phalle between two of his “girls”, Georges Braque surprised in the complete work or the British David Hockney, blonde blonde blonde
In the suburbs section, “we discovered the years 1940 and 50, in black and white, very populated and organized at the request of Blaise Cendars in a book and, 30 years later, the photos of the same suburbs of color, in a completely dehumanized space,” he emphasizes the commissioner.
Another section talks about “Meetings” and presents a famous photo of Concierge in 1945, as well as the one of the police officer against the entry ‘a cabaret that seems to want to devour it, entitled “L’Plémón”.
The exhibition concludes on the latest works of Robert Doisneau, in color. “At the end of his life, he will say that, if he had to do again, he would do it again in color,” said the commissioner.
Source: BFM TV
