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    Robert DoisneauFrench photographer
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    BornRobert Doisneau · 14 April 1912 · Gentilly, France
    Died1 April 1994 (aged 81) · Montrouge, France
    EducationÉcole Estienne, 1929 graduate, diplomas in engraving and lithography
    Occupation(s)Photographer, engraver
    Photographic career

    Doisneau is remembered for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Influenced by the work of André Kertész… See more

    Early life

    Doisneau's father, a plumber, died on active service in World War I, when his son was about four. His mother died when he was seven. He then was raised by an aunt. At thirteen, he enrolled at the École Estienne, … See more

    Photography in the 1930s

    In 1931, he left both the studio and advertising, taking a job as an assistant with the modernist photographer André Vigneau. In 1932, he sold his first photographic story to Excelsior magazine.
    In 1934, he … See more

    War service and resistance

    Doisneau worked at the Rapho agency until the outbreak of World War II, whereupon he was drafted into the French army as both a soldier and photographer. He was in the army until 1940 and, from then until the end of the war i… See more

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