Do you know this photo / photographer?

[kully]

Hope this is the right forum.

My favourite photo of all time was bought on a postcard in Paris.

It's black and white taken maybe in the the late forties / early fifties, it's of a wide Parisian street and shows a family (Mum, Dad, boy) on one motorbike and a couple on another (can't remember which ones) going past the photographer from left to right. The expression on the boys face is classic, and the bloke with his girlfriend is smoking a fag (which makes me think it was a setup, as I've tried this and it does not work).

I had this on my desk for years but we moved recently and I can't find it anywhere and neither can I remember anything about the photographer apart from him being famous and French...


Thanks in advance,
kully

 

[kbg32]

Possibly Robert Doisneau.

 

[netzspannung]

Doisneau or Willi Ronis

 

[VictorM.]

Robert Doisneau: 'Boulevard Brune, Paris 14th - 1953'

 

[bmattock]

You guys are amazing. I found a copy of it based on your information. I would never have guessed it!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[tkluck]

http://monsieurphoto.free.fr/index.php?menu=1&ss_menu=1&Id=1&page=2

 

[kbg32]

Hope this is the right forum.

My favourite photo of all time was bought on a postcard in Paris.

It's black and white taken maybe in the the late forties / early fifties, it's of a wide Parisian street and shows a family (Mum, Dad, boy) on one motorbike and a couple on another (can't remember which ones) going past the photographer from left to right. The expression on the boys face is classic, and the bloke with his girlfriend is smoking a fag (which makes me think it was a setup, as I've tried this and it does not work).

I had this on my desk for years but we moved recently and I can't find it anywhere and neither can I remember anything about the photographer apart from him being famous and French...


Thanks in advance,
kully

Before Robert Doisneau passed, he admitted that quite a few of his most well known images were setup. I feel kind of mixed about it, but they still are wonderful images.

"Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994) was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.
Among his most recognizable work is Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville ("Kiss by the Hotel de Ville"), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris, which has come to represent the French manner of living, accurately or not, to many parts of the world. The original print of this iconic image was sold for 155,000 Euros by Françoise Bornet, the woman in the photograph, at an auction in April 2005. Bornet and her then boyfriend Jacques Carteaud posed for the seemingly spontaneous photo in 1950."

 

[kully]

Thanks everyone, Bill that is the photo!

It doesn't really matter to me whether this and that much more famous "kiss" photo were setups or not, they're bloody grand.

Now to hunt down a good print of it somewhere.