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Background information
"Robert DOISNEAU was the classic flâneur with the camera, he loved his Paris and knew it inside out. (...) The war brought him to photojournalism: he became the photographer of the Résistance, documenting the occupation and liberation of Paris. His true love, however, was always everyday life - his archive contains around 350,000 photographs of Parisian street scenes, including the famous 'Kiss in front of the City Hall', taken in 1950. Even during his lifetime, Doisneau was showered with awards. After his death, there were extensive retrospectives in Paris, Chicago and New York.
Content
The photo volume 'My Paris' with black and white photographs by Robert DOISNEAU is a wonderful book about Paris. 600 photographs - many of them previously unpublished - are arranged like walks through the city and time: along the Seine, around the Eiffel Tower, through the gardens and parks, along the busy boulevards and into the suburbs. This volume was compiled by the great photographer's daughters, Annette Doisneau and Francine Deroudille. He himself has his say at length with diary entries, commentaries, and reminiscences." (© Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 2010)