His black and white photographs once typified the magic of 'gay' Paris.
Now French photographer Robert Doisneau has received the ultimate accolade - he has been celebrated with his own Google Doodle.
The collage of his shots on the home page of the search engine marks 100 years since he was born on April 14, 1912, in Gentilly, France.
Both of Doisneau's parents had died by the time he was seven but he went on to become one of the greatest photographers of all time.
The Google Doodle includes his most famous image, Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by the Hotel de Ville) which was shot in 1950 in Paris.
The image, which was once a must for
the bedroom wall of any fashionable student, shows a young couple
kissing passionately amid the hustle and bustle of a Paris street. They
are oblivious to the passers-by around them while locked in an embrace
that captures the romance of Paris.
The photograph has the town hall in the back ground and the tables of a cafe in the foreground. It has been reproduced millions of times on cards and posters.
But quite whether Doisneau had intended for the 'l' of Google to be looming over them is another matter. There is a letter 'g' to their left and an 'e' to the right of them.
Another photograph on the doodle is titled Le Remorqueur du Champ de Mars (Tug on the Champ de Mars). The 1943 image shows two children playing at Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Google have altered it to include a capital 'G' between the arches of the landmark.
Another picture in the collage is
that of a woman - representing the anonymous reader - at the
19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant's monument at Parc Monceau, Paris. There is the 'oo' of Google beneath her.
The fourth photograph is Le Chien a Roulettes (Dog on Wheels) from 1977. Part of the last 'g' of Google spills into this shot.
By far the most famous of Doisneau's pictures is Le baiser de l'hotel de ville. He was once taken to court by a couple who claimed they were the ones photographed in the shot.
However, once the case already underway Doisneau dramatically revealed that he had staged the shot with two models. The opportunistic pair promptly had their case chucked out.
Doisneau's specialty was street photographer. But when he started out as a teenager he was so shy that he would only take pictures of street cobbles.
However, by the time Doisneau was 20 he was already a professional photographer. Many of his best images were taken after returning from service in the French Army from 1940 - 1945 in the Second World War.
He won a string of accolades before dying aged 81 on April 1, 1994, in Montrouge, Paris.
The Robert Doisneau Google doodle is the 1347th Google doodle since the first ever 14 years ago. The search engine changes the doodle every day to tie in with a significant date in history.
Now French photographer Robert Doisneau has received the ultimate accolade - he has been celebrated with his own Google Doodle.
The collage of his shots on the home page of the search engine marks 100 years since he was born on April 14, 1912, in Gentilly, France.
Both of Doisneau's parents had died by the time he was seven but he went on to become one of the greatest photographers of all time.
The Google Doodle includes his most famous image, Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by the Hotel de Ville) which was shot in 1950 in Paris.
Robert Doisneau's Le baiser de l'hotel de ville
(Kiss by the Hotel de Ville), which shows a young couple kissing amid
the hustle and bustle of a Paris street. The picture typifies the
romance of the French capital and went on to become his most famous
shot. It has now been recreated in a Google Doodle
The Google Doodle celebrates 100 years since
Doisneau was born in Paris on April 14, 1912. He was an orphan by the
time he was seven but went on to wing a string of accolades for his work
The photograph has the town hall in the back ground and the tables of a cafe in the foreground. It has been reproduced millions of times on cards and posters.
But quite whether Doisneau had intended for the 'l' of Google to be looming over them is another matter. There is a letter 'g' to their left and an 'e' to the right of them.
Another photograph on the doodle is titled Le Remorqueur du Champ de Mars (Tug on the Champ de Mars). The 1943 image shows two children playing at Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Google have altered it to include a capital 'G' between the arches of the landmark.
Robert Doisneau's photograph
The Birds taken in July 1974. Stunning black and white images like this
helped the camera expert win a string of accolades before he died in
1994 aged 81
Industrial: Two of Doisneau's sightly less
romantic pictures of the nuclear fusion plant in Ivry, near Paris. He
took them between 1942 and 1943 while working as a photographer in the
French Army during the Second World War
The fourth photograph is Le Chien a Roulettes (Dog on Wheels) from 1977. Part of the last 'g' of Google spills into this shot.
By far the most famous of Doisneau's pictures is Le baiser de l'hotel de ville. He was once taken to court by a couple who claimed they were the ones photographed in the shot.
However, once the case already underway Doisneau dramatically revealed that he had staged the shot with two models. The opportunistic pair promptly had their case chucked out.
Doisneau's specialty was street photographer. But when he started out as a teenager he was so shy that he would only take pictures of street cobbles.
However, by the time Doisneau was 20 he was already a professional photographer. Many of his best images were taken after returning from service in the French Army from 1940 - 1945 in the Second World War.
He won a string of accolades before dying aged 81 on April 1, 1994, in Montrouge, Paris.
The Robert Doisneau Google doodle is the 1347th Google doodle since the first ever 14 years ago. The search engine changes the doodle every day to tie in with a significant date in history.
