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Robert Doisneau (Gentilly, 14 April 1912 – Montrouge, 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, belonging to the so-called humanist photography. As a boy he studied lithography at the école Estienne, near Chantilly. Read the full biography

Robert Doisneau (Gentilly, 14 April 1912 – Montrouge, 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, belonging to the so-called humanist photography. As a boy he studied lithography at the école Estienne, near Chantilly. He was then hired at the age of twenty-two, after having worked as an assistant to the sculptor André Vigneau, at the Renault workshops in Billancourt as an industrial photographer. In the 1940s he became involved in the Resistance, in 1945 he began working with Pierre Betz, publisher of the newspaper Le Point and in 1946 he became an independent photographer for the Rapho agency, founded by Charles Rado and managed at the time by Raymond Grosset; Doisneau remained a Rapho photographer for about fifty years. In 1947 he met Jacques Prévert, Robert Giraud and, in the same year, won the Kodak Prize. He died in Montrouge, a suburb south of Paris.