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Robert Doisneau 
Photo montage of a portrait of the clochard Coco inside a camera lens. 
1950s (taken) 1988 (print) 
  
Gelatin silver print 
23.7 x 17.5 cm 
  
Bassenge Photography Auctions 
19th – 21st Century Photography, 7 December 2022, Lot: 4131 
  
 
LL/123988 
  
Doisneau took this famous portrait of the clochard Coco, a well-known figure in Les Halles, Paris in 1952. A few years later he combined this portrait with the image of a camera lens to be illustrated on a publication cover which was never realized. 
 

 
  
 
  
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