Robert Doisneau on Google Doodle

Robert Doisneau, with his Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville)

That was a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.

"I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be," Robert Doisneau. And in another line, 1992, about his greatest art, he said "I would never have dared to photograph people like that. Lovers kissing in the street, those couples are rarely legitimate." He won many awards, few of them are:

• the Balzac Prize in 1986 (Honoré de Balzac)
• the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1983
• the Niépce Prize in 1956 (Nicéphore Niépce)
• the Kodak Prize in 1947

"The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." Robert Doisneau.

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