Robert Doisneau was born on April 14, 1912 in Gentilly, France and he died on April 1, 1994 in Montrouge, France. He went to École Estienne in Paris to learn the crafts involved in the book trade but, just as Modernist ideas were beginning to promote photography as the prime medium of advertisement, he decided to begin photography, this was in 1929. At first Doisneau worked for André Vigneau, an advertising photographer. In the 1930s durning the great depression he worked as a photographer for the Renault car company. He also regularly photographed the streets of London, hoping to sell the photos to magazines that were expanding to photography as a medium.
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