A testament to spontaneity of a street photographer or a staged photo? Robert Doisneau was on assignment for Life magazine in 1950 for a story on romance in Paris when he took the photo above.
Category: Contact Sheets
New York City Dogs, Elliott Erwitt | Contact Sheets
Although he is also known for many other famous street-photography photos, Elliott Erwitt dedicated the bulk of his photographic work to dogs. He loves them: dogs on the street, dog portraits, dogs larger than children, dog piles and most famously, jumping dogs. Of his 21 books, four are devoted to his dog photography.
The Year of Contact Sheets
William Klein asked his fellow photographers to talk about their contact sheets in a series of short vignettes made for the French television — 36 episodes from Elliot Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many more.
23-F Coup, 1981
On 23 February 1981, Col. Antonio Tejero entered the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, with 200 Guardia Civil and soldiers and held the deputies present hostage for some 22 hours.
Hungarian Uprising by John Sadovy, 1956
John Sadovy was one of a handful of photojournalists who got into Hungary during its tumultuous revolution in 1956.
Windblown Jackie by Ron Galella, 1971
When the former first lady was living in New York, Ron Galella bribed many doormen and chauffeurs to know her whereabouts to photograph her.
Dead Iraqi Soldier, 1991
A few hours before the 1991 Gulf war ceasefire, photographer Ken Jarecke was heading back to Kuwait from Southern Iraq when he came across a single truck burnt out from airstrike.
9/11 – Thomas Hoepker
On 9/11, Thomas Hoepker took a photo. Did it show American indifference and amnesia? Or citizens participating in civic debate?
The Hague Reparation Conference, 1930
During the intense discussions of the Hague Reparation Conference (1930) to address how Germany was to pay annuities demanded by the Treaty of Versailles, Erich Salomon took a series of candid photos.
Che Guevara is dead, 1967
After his execution in Bolivia, Che’s body was then lashed to the landing skids of a helicopter and flown to nearby Vallegrande and put on display for several photographers in a laundry room.