Alessandra Mauro, Contrasto's editorial director, and Michele Smargiassi, journalist and author of the introduction, talk about the Italian edition of Robert Doisneau's autobiography, whose title recalls an essay dedicated to him by his friend and poet Jacques Prévert. The text traces memories, anecdotes and portraits that alternate with some of his best-known photographs. The author of immortal images, Robert Doisneau was a great photographer of everyday life, made up of small gestures, ordinary people, moments characterised by tenderness and humour.
As part of the review Le Voci dei Libri, in collaboration with Coop Alleanza 3.0
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Robert Doisneau (Paris, 1914 1994) managed to capture and transform stories into perfect scenes in his photographs. Over time, he produced journalistic reportages, industry photos, corporate shoots, fashion photographs, simple but ingenious advertisements. Each assignment was a small challenge to be taken seriously and each image a perfect and right composition. With his attentive gaze, camera in hand, Doisneau moved swiftly and curiously, embodying, in reality but above all in the imagination of generations of observers and admirers, the emblem of the photographer ready to capture the everyday “bonheur”, the minute solidarity, filling our imagination with memorable scenes.
“What I was trying to show,” he said, "was the world in which I would want to live; the world where I would feel good, where people would be kind, where I would find the tenderness I hoped to receive”.