Author Jean-Claude Gautrand

This imposing 540-page book of 450 photographs celebrates the career of Robert Doisneau, one of the best representatives of the trend of “humanist photography” popular in the 1950s. It features…

Over the following decades, the rediscovery of both photography and certain photographers took on ever greater dimensions. In 1981, a film entitled Poete et pieton (Poet on Foot) was made…

In the 1960s, everything ground to a halt. In France, photography went into a sudden decline and, for many photographers, these were the wilderness years. Publications and exhibitions were increasingly…

For Doisneau, 1947 was a landmark year. First of all, there was the birth of his second daughter, Francine. It was also the year in which he received the Prix…

Alas military service nipped this promising debut in the bud. By the time it was over in 1934, Vigneau had succumbed to the economic crisis affiicting the entire nation and…