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Robert Doisneau

Doisneau was born 1912. He is France's most noted and famous photographers. What makes him so famous is his unsuposing and playful images of everyday french life. Doisneau published over 20 books consisting of realistic quiet images of usually personal moments between everyday people in France. He was exposed to photography from Advertising Department of a Pharmaceutical Firm. He taught himself the way around the camera. He looked at it as a hobby. He would wander down the streets of Paris and take photos of what he thought was unexpecting, spontaneous, and exciting people or things he would come across. He wrote "The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." He started talking photos of just object themselves in 1930 and in 1932 he sold his first photo-story to the Excelsior newspaper. During World War || not only was he a solider in the war but he was also a photographer of the war as well. Some of his best work was known as his picture of  small children and how they interact with each other. Doisneau won the Prix Niepce award in 1956. In 1973 acted in a short film as a consultant to Expo '67, Canada. His later years he spent to himself, just like his photos he was a very shy away man just observing peoples way of life he was a very unassuming man, but a very talented one at that and loved by many. He past way in 1994, but his photos still live on.