biographies Oct09

Robert Doisneau
April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994
French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.
Robert Doisneau was one of France's most popular and prolific reportage photographers. He was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Influenced by the work of Kertész, Atget, and Cartier-Bresson, in over 20 books Doisneau has presented a charming vision of human frailty and life as a series of quiet, incongruous moments. Doisneau has written: "The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
-wikipedia

Yi-Fu Tuan
Born December 5,1930 in Tientsin, China, retired and residing in USA
A geographer who focussed on systematic humanistic geography. He describes the content of human geography from his wonderings about "the glories and miseries of human existence, observable on the streets as well as in colleges."
In Space and Place : The Perspective of Experience, Tuan contends that a space requires a movement from a place to another place. Similarly, a place requires a space to be a place.
-wikipedia
Yi-Fu Tuan is a pioneer in the field of human geography and merging it with philosophy, art, psychology, and religion. This amalgamation has formed what is known as humanist geography.
Humanist geography studies how humans interact with space and their physical and social environments. It also looks at the spatial and temporal distribution of population as well as the organization of the world’s societies. It stresses people’s perceptions, creativity, personal beliefs, and experiences in developing attitudes on their environments.
In addition to his work in human geography, Yi-Fu Tuan is known for his definitions of space and place. Today, place is defined as a particular part of space that can be occupied, unoccupied, real, or perceived. Space is defined as that which is occupied by an object's volume.
-http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/yifutuan.htm

also http://www.yifutuan.org/