Latest updates on France, French Wine, Food, Travel, Holidays and Events
FrenchDuck UK - Latest
Robert Doisneau is the photographer whose iconic black and white photos of Paris in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s captured a vision of a romantic city, conjured up the music of Edith Piaf or Charles Aznavour and swathed it all in the whiff of Gauloises cigarettes. We have several of his atmospheric prints at home, and they are very evocative of a Paris as we’d all love to imagine it.
And yet, the Paris and Parisiens that he photographed are not in the main the tourist sites or celebrities, but much more of the day-to-day almost back-street life of the city and its people. Some are quite quirky and funny, but somehow you know that they are of Paris and of real people in that era.
Perhaps his most famous image is that shown above - “Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville” taken in 1950 and which was sold in 2005 for €155.000.
There is an exibition of his work at the Hotel de Ville in Paris until 27 Feb 2007 (not Sundays) - for more info see http://en.parisinfo.com/
