Robert Doisneau is one of the pioneering leaders of photojournalism. His most famous work is his picture A kiss by the town hall, in which a couple is kissing in the busy streets of paris. Doisneau is known for his playful, ironic, mix up of social classes and eccentricity in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Robert Doisneau was born in Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne, France. He studied engraving in college but found it useless once graduated. He first learned photography in the advertising department of a pharmaceutical firm. In 1932 he sold his first photo-story to the Excelsior newspaper. He was a camera assistant to the sculptor Andrei Vigneaux and did military service before he took up the job of an industrial and advertising photographer for the Renault auto factory at Billancourt in 1934. He was then fired in 1939, and so he took up freelance advertising and postcard photography to make a living. He also worked for the Rapho photo agency for several months until he was drafted to war in 1939. He was a member of the resistance. After the war he returned home and became a freelance photographer for Life and other big international magazines. Robert Doisneau won the Prix Kodak in 1947 as well as the Prix Niepce in 1956. He died in 1994 in Paris the place he lived throughout his life,and is buried in the cemetery Raizeux by his wife, Pierrette.
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