Google celebrates Robert Doisneau

[Chris Dodkin]

If you check out Google today (Saturday 14th April) - the Google doodle of the day is made up of photographs from legendary French street photographer, Robert Doisneau.
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They are celebrating the man's centenary, and the images he produced from his ever handy Leica are iconic 'captured moments' - some spontaneous, and some staged. “I don't photograph life as it is,” Doisneau famously said, “but life as I would like it to be.”

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“I am not a hunter of pictures,” Doisneau once said. “I am a fisher of pictures.”

Robert Doisneau

 

[Brian Moore]

Very cool to see the great Doisneau recognized. (Thought for sure Google would doodle the Titanic up somehow.)

 

[Chris Dodkin]

The Titanic doodle idea sank without trace, Brian

 

[Pete Askew]

A man responsible for some of my favourite images.

For example: