Robert Doisneau - SCÈNES D'ENFANTS - 1957-1957

A beautiful and very rare title by the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau. Doisneau's entry in this elegantly produced Japanese series features his inimitable shots of children in all their canniness, vulnerability, mischievousness, and unselfconscious joie de vivre.

Scenes D'Enfants. Photographs by Robert Doisneau. Essay, 'De La Photographie' by Robert Doineau. Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Text + 48 plates. Small quarto. Stiff boards with photo illustrated French fold dust jacket. Black and white reproductions. Text in French and Japanese. All photos depicting children, beautiful photography, intimate and intuitive.

Condition: good in a good dust jacket. The boards are clean with light wear. The dust jacket is complete with light wear. Interior clean and unmarked, no foxing. Only some yellowing to front and rear endpaper. A little bend to upper corner of pages (see images). Beautiful clean images.