What is Robert Doisneau?
{{unreferenced|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox person |name = Robert Doisneau |image = Robert Doisneau photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge, 1992.jpg |caption = Doisneau in his studio in Montrouge, 1992 |birth_name = Robert Doisneau |birth_date = {{birth date |1912|4|14|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Gentilly, Val-de-Marne]], France |death_date = {{death date and age|1994|4|1|1912|4|14|df=y}} |death_place = [[Montrouge]], France |resting_place = [[Raizeux]] |resting_place_coordinates = |other_names = |known_for = [[Street photography]], ''Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville'' (''The kiss by the City Hall'') |education = [[École Estienne]], 1929 graduate, diplomas in engraving and lithography |employer = |occupation = Photographer, engraver |title = Chevalier of the Order of the [[Legion of Honour]] |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Robert Doisneau''' (14 April 1912 &ndash; 1 April 1994) was a [[France|French]] [[photographer]]. In the 1930s, he used a form of camera called a Leica on the streets of [[Paris]]. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. As a young man Doisneau attended the École Estienne in Paris to learn the [[craft]]s involved in the book trade, but he always claimed that the streets of the working-class neighbourhood of Gentilly provided his most important schooling. In 1929, in an effort to improve his draftsmanship, he began photographing, just as Modernist ideas were beginning to promote [[photography]] as the prime medium for advertising and reportage. {{DEFAULTSORT:Doisneau, Robert}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:1994 deaths]] [[Category:French photographers]] {{biography-stub}}