PHOTOGRAPHER

Robert Doisneau

1912 - 1994

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Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Doisneau has received more than 413,131 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Doisneau is the 5th most popular photographer (up from 7th in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from France (down from 719th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Photographer.

Robert Doisneau is most famous for his photo of a couple kissing on the streets of Paris.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Robert Doisneau ranks 5 out of 148. Before him are Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, and Alberto Korda. After him are Alexander Rodchenko, Eadweard Muybridge, Dora Maar, Heinrich Hoffmann, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Robert Doisneau ranks 26. Before him are Carlo Ponti, Chuck Jones, Hanna Reitsch, Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, and Sergiu Celibidache. After him are James Callaghan, Konrad Emil Bloch, Lawrence Durrell, Karl Malden, Edward Mills Purcell, and Juan Pujol García. Among people deceased in 1994, Robert Doisneau ranks 30. Before him are Jan Tinbergen, Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Debord, Paul Delvaux, Telly Savalas, and Domenico Modugno. After him are George Peppard, André Michel Lwoff, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Henry Mancini, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Gian Maria Volonté.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert Doisneau ranks 752 out of 6,770. Before him are Jérôme Lalande (1732), Charles Hermite (1822), Simon Vouet (1590), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), François Mansart (1598), and Theobald I of Navarre (1201). After him are Joan II of Navarre (1311), Marie Laforêt (1939), Girard Desargues (1591), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Robert Doisneau ranks 3. Before him are Nadar (1820), and Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908). After him are Dora Maar (1907), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Sophie Calle (1953), and Étienne Carjat (1828).

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