From January the 13th to April the 18th, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, just a stone’s throw from the Hotel Aiglon, presents « Robert Doisneau, From craft to art». The exhibition shows about hundred prints of Robert Doisneau closely linked to Paris and street scenes taken between 1930 and 1966.
Doisneau’s photographs are immortalized life instants. And he treats here its favorite subject: Paris and its suburbs. The irresistible talent of the one that claimed he “photographed to survive” grabing the right instant, press on the button on the right moment is amazing. The spectator guesses the pleasure that “the poacher of transience” should feel hunting the best picture while going all over town.
This is finally “real life” which is exhibited to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation: children laughs and plays, a passer-by’s jump or pace. That is what raised Doisneau’s photographs from a craft to an art.
Expressions of faces and dynamic of movements expressed on Doisneau’s subjects could be from 2010. This timeless aspect and the human universal arouse a beautiful emotion while visiting this exhibition.
Robert Doisneau , « From craft to art »
From January the 13th to April the 18th
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
2 impasse Lebouis
75014 Paris
www.henricartierbresson.org