One of France's best-known photographers, some of his pictures have been seen around the world: Robert Doisneau is an artist whose art cannot be ignored. From April 17 to October 12, 2025, he is the focus of an exhibition at the Musée Maillol, which is staging a major retrospective of the photographer's career.
Instants donnés brings together over 250 photographs, taken between the 1930s and the 1980s. Fifty years of observation and exploration, fifty years of life and career in the service of art.
For Robert Doisneau, photography is a false testimony, an illusion of reality. He preferred to stage the everyday, to create more poetic, dreamlike pictures. Doisneau sought to tell a story through photography, rather than capture reality.
The exhibition offers a chronological tour of the photographer's life. We discover the Paris suburbs where he lived, the artists' studios he frequented, his years working for Vogue, in fashion and luxury... The works reveal the way Robert Doisneau saw himself and the world. It's an often playful, childlike look, an uncompromising vision of a harsh, unjust world.
Behind these staged snapshots, the artist lets us glimpse her, and recounts her truth, that of an everyday life where beauty can take many forms.
An exhibition not to be missed at the Musée Maillol!
Dates and Opening Time
From April 17, 2025 to October 12, 2025
Location
The Maillol Museum
59-61 Rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris 7
Access
Metro line 12 "Rue du Bac" station
Prices
Tarif réduit: €12.5
Tarif plein: €16.5
Official website
museemaillol.com
