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After a sleepy morning during French class (slept throughout the break. That's not normal of me to sleep during that time), we had a rare treat of exploring a photo exhibition at Alliance Française titled À l'imparfait de l'objectif'. The special thing about this exhibition tour is that 2 of our tutors were there to give some insights on the photographer, Robert Doisneau, and commentaries on his famous works; his major themes of his photos, his style, etc. Here's an excerpt below from Alliance Française Singapour's website:

A l’imparfait de l’objectif comprises photos Doisneau took throughout the course of his life, in which he attempts to illustrate his visions of beauty and goodness, and to share with us moments of happiness found in daily life. Witness to a tumultuous history, haunted by the inevitable passage of time, Doisneau endeavours – by capturing superfluous and unfinished expressions – to make each and everyone of us aware of the temporal nature of life.

Here's some phone cam pics which I snapped at the gallery (I got a casual c'est interdite! remark from a professeur after snapping a shot of his most famous work Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville.. hehe)

Here's the phone cam pic of Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville.



Our current tutor Étienne

Another one of our tutors Jerôme explaining to us the photo. I wouldn't want to explain what is the content in the photo about.. hehe... hit me if any curious buggers out there want to know...

Hairdressers 'lepakking' in a Parisien café in the 60s

Thanks to Jerôme and Étienne for lecturing us througout (in french)...