The 15th edition of the MAP Toulouse Photography Festival will be held from September 12 to 29, 2024 in 9 locations in the heart of the emblematic Saint-Cyprien district. This now unmissable event for visual art and culture lovers promises a unique immersion in the world of contemporary photography, with free exhibitions by renowned and emerging artists, fun and family activities, meetings with professionals and moments of discussion around this passion that unites and federates. Visitors are warned, these 18 days of festival will be an opportunity to discover or rediscover works and places, to admire Toulouse from a new angle and to participate in workshops, screenings or even conferences that will highlight the multiple facets of this captivating art.
Robert Doisneau is exposed there.
Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is one of the most popular French photographers of the post-war period. Born in Gentilly, he studied graphic arts at the Estienne school and graduated as an engraver and lithographer in 1929. A year later, he joined the Atelier Ullmann as an advertising photographer.
In 1932, he sold his first photographic report, which was published in Excelsior.
In 1934, the car manufacturer Renault, from Boulogne-Billancourt, hired him as an industrial photographer. He remained at Renault until 1939. Robert Doisneau then became an independent photographer.
After the war, he produced numerous photographic reports on a wide variety of subjects: Parisian current events, working-class Paris, subjects on the provinces or abroad (USSR, United States, Yugoslavia, among others). Some of his reports appeared in magazines such as Life, Paris Match, Réalités, Point de Vue, Regards, etc.
Factory fumes by Robert Doisneau
In reality, I gave in to the easy way out. It is more pleasant to pick up little flowers than to make pies with slag. Lack of conviction, lack of willpower because I would have needed some, some willpower, to force the barriers behind which the living conditions of workers are hidden. I understand: everyone works or almost, but I think of the shirt-wetters, those who are near the fire or who go to the coal, and all those who are possessed by the pride of doing a dangerous job. If, instead of giving in to the joke, I had put my patience at the service of this cause, today I could be puffed up with importance. I probably had better technical training than most of my colleagues, which makes my case worse. I cannot hide behind ignorance because, after my Renault experience, I have often had the opportunity to return to these places where men serve their sentence. Sometimes a day or two, rarely a whole week, each time like a visitor pressed for time, a spectator watching the cyclists from the Saint-Nazaire construction sites go by, being ushered into the dormitories of the SNCF depots, being expelled from the fortresses of canned peas or, a little further up the Hexagon, who has seen the mining villages and the CRS buses crossing the buses transporting the miners at night. And what else… the women from the spinning mills and the slimy entrails of the chemical plants, not great for your health.
Text by Robert Doisneau taken from “The imperfect of the objective”
MAP Toulouse Photography Festival
from September 12 to 29, 2024
https://map-photo.fr/
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