This is your 26th book devoted to photography and photographers. How would you summarize your career and your relationship with Doisneau?
I started out in photography in the 1960s with the “Club Photographique de Paris, Les 30×40,” which became a meeting place for people in the photo world, and it was there that I met Brassaï, Ronis, Boubat, Dieuzaide and Doisneau, who would become my friends and about whom I would later write.
I saw Doisneau again and again throughout my professional and personal life. I saw him in 1968 when I was awarded the Grand Prix de la Photo at the Musée Cantini in Marseille by a jury that included Clergue, Sudre, Boubat and Doisneau. I saw him again during the demolition of Les Halles, both at the site and at the release of my book L’Assassinat de Baltard (1972), again during Les Rencontres d’Arles in 1975 when he was the guest of honor, and at our several exhibitions in Paris over the decades to come.
Read the full article on the French version of L’Oeil de la Photographie.
BOOK
Robert Doisneau
Editions Taschen
By Jean Claude Gautrand
25 x 34 cm
540 pages
€ 49,99
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