A certain Robert Doisneau
Stavelot Abbey presents, for the first time ever in Belgium, a retrospective exhibition devoted to Robert Doisneau (1912-1994).
Born barely 100 years ago, Robert Doisneau is the last century’s best known and most acknowledged French photographer. Author of the famous The Kiss at City Hall, Doisneau wonderfully masters the art the instant, seeming to capture a second of the intimacy of a life in an action shot. Subtly staging the anecdote, his humanist photographs are marked with humour, simple happiness, nostalgia, irony and tenderness. The photographs by Doisneau, a true poet of the eighth art, take us on a journey through time and make us relive almost a century of the everyday life of a crowd, a child or two lovers …
Doisneau’s renown is firmly established through his black and white photographs of the inhabitants of Paris: craftsmen, tramps, street urchins, lovers in the bistros, streets, suburbs and avenues … The exhibition A certain Robert Doisneau provides us with an opportunity to meet Robert Doisneau beyond his most famous photos by also presenting us coloured photographs and, exclusively at Stavelot Abbey, unpublished photographs of Belgium …