Édouard Boubat

Édouard Boubat
Boubat in 1943
Born	(1923-09-13)13 September 1923 Montmartre, Paris, France
Died	30 June 1999(1999-06-30) (aged 75) Paris, France
Spouses	Lella ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1952)​ Sophie ​ (m. 1954)​
Children	Bernard Boubat
Website	www.edouard-boubat.fr

Édouard Boubat (French: [buba]; 13 September 1923 – 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.

Life and work

Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943, he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed some of the horrors of World War II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled internationally for the French magazine Réalités, where his colleague was Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "peace correspondent" as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects. His son Bernard Boubat is also a photographer.

Notable awards

• 1947 – Kodak Prize
• 1971 – David Octavius Hill Medal
• 1984 – Grand Prix National de la Photographie
• 1988 – Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography

Gallery

• 
  Lella 1947.
• 
  Remi 1995.

Exhibitions

Publications

• Edouard Boubat: Pauses (Bookking International, 1988). ISBN 978-2877140249.
• Édouard Boubat (Centre national de la photographie, 1988). ISBN 978-2867540431.
• Photographies 1950–1987. (Éditions du Désastre, 1988). ISBN 978-2877700016.
• It's a Wonderful Life (Editions Assouline, 1997). ISBN 978-2843230127.
• Édouard Boubat: The Monograph. (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004). ISBN 978-0810956100.
• Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye (Thames & Hudson, 2004). ISBN 978-0500512012.

References

Further reading

• "Entre Vues: Frank Horvat – Edouard Boubat (interview)". Frank Horvat Photography. July 1986. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Édouard Boubat.

• Édouard Boubat at Luminous Lint
• Edouard Boubat and his Cat Photos

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