“Yes, I know, it used to be ugly, today it’s just as ugly, but differently.”
This is the harsh assessment he made in 1984 of the evolution of this Parisian suburb where, for him, it all began.
At no time was he a champion of this suburb, but he always viewed it with the lucidity of a user, curious about these original landscapes and then the radical changes in these misunderstood, working-class neighborhoods, and saying, echoing Raymond Queneau in ” Courir les rues,”
“I have to go see before all this disappears”…
Atelier Robert Doisneau
46 place Jules Ferry
92120 Montrouge
https://www.robert-doisneau.com/en/
