Source
Robert Doisneau, photographe de la vie quotidienne, est mort
Citation
Guerrin, Michel. “Robert Doisneau, photographe de la vie quotidienne, est mort.” Le Monde, 3 avril 1994. Nécrologie / obituary.
Relevance
Named-author obituary of record in a French newspaper of record for Robert Doisneau (1912–1994), the French humanist photographer whose prints appear at plates #14, #16, and #20 of The Family of Man (Lovers). Source for the biographical dates in pher-robert-doisneau.
Key excerpts / pages
- Birth: April 14, 1912, Gentilly, Seine (today Val-de-Marne), France.
- Death: April 1, 1994, Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Career summary places Doisneau at the center of the French humanist-photography school alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, and Édouard Boubat.
Notes
- Atelier Robert Doisneau (robertdoisneau.com), maintained by his daughters Annette and Francine Doisneau, is the canonical estate / archival reference and may be cited where a finer provenance claim is needed.
- Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
- Not fetchable anywhere (Le Monde paywall; no Wayback Machine snapshot found via archive.org API). Marked verified: false per issue #9 procedure. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is not a valid citation endpoint. The Atelier Robert Doisneau (robertdoisneau.com) is the canonical Tier-3 corroborating authority but was NOT fetched this round. Biographical dates in Key excerpts are held on the pre-existing Le Monde citation only.