I happened to glimpse some fragments of time in which the everyday world appeared freed from its heaviness. In a review of Donald B. Hoffman's book, Visual Intelligence.
Vision is used here in the philosophical context of a 'phenomenal' rather than a rational sense.
Robert Doisneau's great gift was to bring about an awareness of the phenomenal to our ordinary rational sense through his photographer's eye. Those moments are embedded in these images, images that break the boundaries of banality and become signposts of our time. A place, needless to say, far removed from that which Paris usually evoked. Those images were in his words, 'inscribed' within him, often imposing itself upon his vision, as part of a greater whole. He began studying lithography at the age of 13.