Édouard Boubat
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Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a well known French art photographer. He was born in Montmartre, Paris. After studying typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, he worked in a printing company but dreamed of being a photographer. After WWII he decided to go for his passion and become a photographer. He focused on the poetic aspect of life and things. He took his first photograph in 1946 in reaction to the banality and horrors of the Second World War and was successful immediately, receiving the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine Realites, but always kept a special interest in photographing his hometown, Paris. He sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "Peace Correspondent." His son Bernard is a photographer.
Reading
Edouard Boubat : The Monograph. (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004).
Photographies 1950-1987 (publ. Éditions du Désastre, 1988) ISBN 2-87770-001-1
Edouard Boubat 324 photographs, Bernard Boubat, Genevieve Anhoury (Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-500-51201-9
