Édouard
Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris)
was a French art photographer. Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris.
He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and
then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer
after WWII.
He
took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the
following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine
Realites. The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "Peace
Correspondent." His son Bernard is also a photographer.
In
a career that spanned more than 50 years, photographer Édouard
Boubat captured the magic of fleeting moments with
tenderness and warmth. A contemporary of Robert Doisneau and one of
the most influential French photographers of the 20th century, Boubat
made elegant, poetic images, beginning with intimate views of
everyday life in his native city of Paris and moving on to striking
pictures taken on his travels in Kenya, India, Spain, Portugal,
Brazil, and China. His photographs were the subject of a major
exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1976, the same year he
published the first major book on his work.
