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Robert Doisneau

1912 - 1994

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Robert Doisneau (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism. Doisneau is known for his 1950 image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the City Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing on a busy Parisian street. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Doisneau is the 10th most popular photographer (down from 5th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from France (down from 752nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Photographer.

Robert Doisneau is most famous for his photo of a couple kissing on the streets of Paris.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Robert Doisneau ranks 10 out of 148. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge, Alberto Korda, Helmut Newton, Dora Maar, Alexander Rodchenko, and Vivian Maier. After him are Oliviero Toscani, Julia Margaret Cameron, Felice Beato, Annie Leibovitz, Brassaï, and Wilhelm von Gloeden.

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Among people born in 1912, Robert Doisneau ranks 52. Before him are Kim Philby, James Callaghan, Sonja Henie, Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, and Shoichi Nishimura. After him are George Emil Palade, Duško Popov, Isser Harel, Don Siegel, Cornel Wilde, and Kathleen Ferrier. Among people deceased in 1994, Robert Doisneau ranks 52. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Julian Schwinger, Juvénal Habyarimana, Fernando Rey, Pujie, and Sylva Koscina. After him are Sergei Bondarchuk, Chung Il-kwon, György Cziffra, Howard Martin Temin, Jack Kirby, and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert Doisneau ranks 1,016 out of 6,770. Before him are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Chilperic I (539), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Roger Etchegaray (1922), and Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907). After him are Joseph Liouville (1809), Georges Bernanos (1888), Louis Desaix (1768), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charlotte of Savoy (1441), and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Robert Doisneau ranks 4. Before him are Nadar (1820), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Dora Maar (1907). After him are Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), Sophie Calle (1953), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), and Patrick Demarchelier (1943).

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