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  When photojournalist turned their cameras to the glamour field, something quite personal was created. There was an informality of pose. Available light replaced studio lamps. Location became important. Smaller cameras and faster film allowed bot the photographer and the subjects a freedom to move, to take chances, and to …

  In short, everything the studio’s unit photographer, who was busy recording each scene in “stills”, could not shoot. It was an all-encompassing  view of motion picture making up close with all its attendant backstage excitement , its energy and tension, its sober dedication and silly camaraderie. Special photographer captured …

  Doisneau did not know the identity of the couple, which remained a mystery until 1992: in that year Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne made themselves known to the French television and pressed charges against the artist for taking their photograph without their permission. This led Doisneau to explain that the …

  Ornitz’ coverage was so successful that United Artists, the distribution company, which had no overhead staff personnel and thus was more flexible than the major companies, adopted the “special photographer” concept for all their films. In addition to Ornitz, the new photographic pioneers in the virgin land were Bob …

  ROBERT DOISNEAU (Gentilly, April 14th 1912 – Montrouge, April 1st 1994) was a French photographer.   As a young man he studied lithography at the école Estienne near Chantilly. He was hired at the age of twenty-two, after working as an assistant to the sculptor André Vigneau, at the …