Untitled
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The story
Drawn from research/photographs/photo-0011.md — the canonical research note. Provenance and primary-source documentation live there; this is the reader-friendly summary.
Subject and context
Per the Master Checklist, Section 2 Lovers opens with plates #12 (Kessel, China) and #13 (Morse, England) and closes at #25. Doisneau’s three plates fall at positions #14, #16, #20 — interleaved with Le Guay (#15), Bernstein (#17), DeCarava (#18), Schuh (#19), Linton (#21), Miller (#22), Faurer (#23, #25), and Haas (#24). Caption 2 (James Joyce, “…and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes…”) installs under #19.
The photograph’s physical subject is not described in the checklist itself. Le Monde’s 1994 obituary (src-lemonde-1994-doisneau-obit, Tier-3, verified:false — paywalled) situates Doisneau within the French humanist-photography school alongside Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, and Édouard Boubat, but does not identify individual Family of Man plates.
Reception / analysis
Not written this round.
Perspective notes
- Curatorial (MoMA 1955): one of three Doisneau plates anchoring the middle of Section 2, Lovers.
- Critical / photo-historical: Doisneau’s humanist-photography practice is documented in Guerrin’s 1994 Le Monde obituary, which was not fetchable this round (paywall).
Open questions
- Which of the three Doisneau plates (#14, #16, #20) corresponds to which known Doisneau work? The Master Checklist does not say; secondary sources do not give plate-level attribution either.
- The photograph’s actual title and date.
- The print’s physical location — whether at Clervaux Castle (CNA Luxembourg).
- Whether MoMA’s permanent collection holds the print with a recorded object id.
Catalog notes
Checklist #14, Section 2 Lovers. Robert Doisneau, Rapho Guillumette (agency), French, 18 x 21 1/4 cm. Doisneau has three plates in Section 2 (14, 16, 20); the MoMA Master Checklist does not give per-plate titles, so we do not attempt to match any of them to Doisneau’s famously-titled ‘Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville’ (1950) without plate-level Tier-1/2 confirmation.
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist