Happy birthday Robert Doisneau

                     Google celebrates 100th birthday of French photographer Robert Doisneau.

"I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,"

                                                  

                                                                                                         - Robert Doisneau

                He was not only famous for his photographic works but he was men with good heart. At the times of second world war he worked as both the soldier and photographer. His photographs never ridiculed the subjects, thus he refused to photograph women whose heads had been shaved as punishment for sleeping with Germans.

             Robert Doisneau was well known for his click  "Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville" (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris, which became an internationally recognised symbol of young love in Paris.

                  Even he was so popular and earning good. He was in many ways a shy and humble man, like his photography, still delivering his own work at the height of his fame. 

          

       "Maybe if I was 20, success would change me. But now I'm a dinosaur of photography,"

                                                                                                      - Robert Doisneau

He wanted only the rate of an "artisan photographer". We lost such a soul in 1 April 1994.

                                                          RIP Robert Doisneau

For more about his works visit Artsy: Robert Doisneau