Robert Doisneau

The way you feel when you kiss him Like fire within your bones Like your soul has returned to the water Like every part of you that came from a dead star is alive again. Is like you saying "I love you" without actually saying it It’s the best feeling anyone could experience.

By Emil Heilborn. (At the dog Races - 1930s).

“I had fun throughout my lifetime, building my own small theater.” --Robert Doisneau T he late French icon phot...

Have you ever wondered how many pictures have been taken of you without you realizing it? Tourists, passersby or even street photographers, be it on purpose or not, might have included you in their camera frame when documenting their lives at some point. Maybe a photograph with you in it is hanging on someone’s wall or hiding in a family album, or perhaps you are even being showcased in a gallery or a museum.

Robert Doisneau. L'Innocent. 1949. Gelatin silver print. 16 1/8 × 11 13/16" (41 × 30 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter. 396.1992.9. © 2024 Robert Doisneau, courtesy Bruce Silverstein. Photography

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Two children under the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1943. Photographed by Robert Doisneau.