Robert Doisneau

Doisneau was origionally trained as a lithographer, but in 1929 embrassed photography. He regarded it as the ideal medium of recording life. His career took off in 1934 as an industrial and advertising photography. He became an independant photojournalist in 1939. In 1949 he bagan to work for vogue fashion magazine untill 1952, although he was most famous for his street photography. He shared exhibitions with artists such as Brassai, Willy Ronis and Izis. He enjoyed to photograph on the margins of society. Information from 20th century photography, museum ludwig cologne.

I discovered Doisneau a long while ago with the image below, which I found quite interesting as it has a feeling of being watched with the man watching the painter and the painter painting the city. Although I have only recently looked into more of his work and that his work was quite inspirational, his images have a very natural, candid feel to them, and although culture has changed now and I won't manage to take images the same, but I feel aspects of his work are helpful such as composition, lighting, and the obliviousness of the subjects.