One of my favorite pictures is “la descente à l’usine” (down to the factory) is a Robert Doisneau’s picture. He is my favorite photographer with Henry Cartier Bresson.
Doisneau is a great photographer; his pictures are about daily life but with an essence of something magical. His all photos are black and white, which gives a special touch to remember stagnant, something like that… One of his most famous photos is “The Kiss”. That photo was supposed spontaneous, but years later, it was learned that was acted out, had to make this clarification because there were many attempts to collect royalties on the photo of the alleged lovers.
This photo (down to the factory) was taken in 1946, a Saint-Denis , communities near Paris (forever communist),I was lucky to be there, I hope be once again, it’s a great place, very magic, is like a gray town but with a very friendly people unlike the rest French. In Saint-Denis lives a significant amount of argelianos or their descendants, there is something of their pain in the air, maybe the picture also reflects part of it.
I like this photo because the perspective lets you see several planes, the child goes down the mountain slope towards the factory, the factory after the mountains, the sky behind the factory, and the smoke from the chimney that is lost in the clouds.
Cloudy day photo saddens me about the child, because although he will play or work a factory is not a good context, but it also recalls the golden era of industrialization and the world that develops around him.
I saw this picture in France, I could not take off for a while, as with most of your photos, shadows, lights, the feeling.... I just love
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