ROBERT DOISNEAU/ FROM CRAFT TO ART

Nowhere is the breezy and urbane romance of Paris conjured as memorably as in the photography of Robert Doisneau (1912-1994). A gent le minstrel of visual anecdote, Doisneau interpreted the city's charms in an iconography that both natives and Francophiles instantl y recognize: the young hip couple stealing a spontaneous kiss at a busy intersection, the gendarme chatting with a mother while her kid tiptoes along a riverbank bench, the sweetly melancholic abandoned merry-go-round in the rain and the entire pageant of Parisian life min...[Read more]