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Arts Calendar / April 24 / Exhibitions
Robert Doisneau: La Beauté du Quotidien
Robert DoisneauRobert Doisneau (1912-1994), one of the most popular photographers of the 20th century, was called as photographic master of everyday life who, like no one else, was able to express a special French charm. With his humorous and iconic photographs of life in the streets and cafés of Paris in the 1940s and 1950s, he became a pioneer of photo journalism. Doisneau is now being shown in Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, his exhibition will be a part of biennial "Fashion and Style in Photography 2015". In his beautiful, sensitive photographs Robert Doisneau has a special eye for the moments that create the narratives of the everyday and the major and minor issues of life are displayed. His photographic work is a declaration of his love of Paris and its citizens - to the concierge, the butcher, the schoolchildren and the loving couples. With his ability to capture the uncommon in what is common, Doisneau leaves behind a picture of the city of cities that we still dream about today. Doisneau's photographic origins are to be found in the 1930s, when photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke about "the decisive moment," the situation takes a sudden turn and the shutter is released. Doisneau was eminent at sensing this crucial moment. But the spontaneous moments in Doisneau's world are not always what they seem to be. The iconic snapshot of the pair kissing in front of the city hall is in fact a staged photograph. Doisneau mixed his observative gaze with the rigorously controlled, thereby developing the proud tradition of photo journalism. He polemically remarked: "I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be." His sense of staging is particularly evident in the famous portraits of the major avant-garde artists and writers of the time, such as Picasso, Simone de Beauvoir and Fernand Léger. The exhibition at Multimedia Art Museum presents more then 100 photographies by Robert Doisneau from Atelier Robert Doisneau, private collections and also some personal documents. Robert Doisneau's photos became iconic in the world, for example his "The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville", taken on a Parisian street in 1950 and considered one of the most romanticand popular photos ever taken. Although Doisneau worked in Paris as a street photographer and stole many an intimate moment of Parisian couples, this classic shot was staged. However, this fact didn't prevent the picture from gracing the walls of many freshman dorm rooms since its first production in 1986. More than 500,000 posters and 400,000 postcards have been reprinted from the original. The picture was taken for a photo spread about Paris lovers for Life magazine, but the image stayed in the archives of Doisneau's photo agency (Ralpho, which benefited greatly from this single picture) for more than 30 years before it was commercialized by a poster company. The picture's success sparked controversies when several couples claimed that they were the subjects and sued Doisneau. In 1993, a former actress, Françoise Bornet sued Doisneau for $18,000 and a share of the royalty in the image, by claiming she was the women in the picture. The case was dismissed, but Doisneau admitted that he, Bornet and her boyfriend Jacques Carteaud staged the photo. The couple who would later separate were the students studying theater when Doisneau approached them. Doisneau reflected, "I would have never dared to photograph people like that. Lovers kissing in the street, those couples are rarely legitimate."
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