On Flirtation: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Uncommitted Life

I’ve classified this image as documentary because that’s the way it looks. It was however, almost certainly at least partly staged, as Doisneau did with some of his most well-known photos (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville 1950, for example). I say ‘partly’ in the sense that he would hire a couple, and move from location to location while directing them to act out a specific scenario.