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Taschen and  Jean-Claude Gautrand are releasing a wonderful new book with over 400 photographs by Robert Doisneau, with half of them rarely or never published. I knew Robert Doisneau. We…

This is not the first time that photographer Raphaël Neal and writer Alice Zeniter have worked together. Neal, a young, multi-faceted French artist produced a feature film in 2014, Fever, adapted by…

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…

Great week. There’s been a bit of everything: war, death, sex, violence, dancing, animals, politics. We visit Ukraine, Guantanamo, Nigeria, Marseille, Turkey, Lille… Situations, travels… C’est la vie.…

It was in the street, in the famous "school of hard knocks," that this most popular of French photographers learned his poetry; his tenderness and humor and the compassionate gaze…

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…

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…

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…