Édouard Boubat

Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a French art photographer.

Life and work

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 Réalités. The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "Peace Correspondent." His son Bernard is also a photographer. In 1971, he was guest honour at Rencontres d'Arles festival (France), where a screening of his work was organised: "Edouard Boubat et Lucien Clergue" presented by Michel Tournier. In 1972, he received a mention from the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award for his book "Women". His work was exposed in group exbihition "Filleuls et parrains" in 1974, Les Rencontres d'Arles. His book "La Survivance" won the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award in 1977.

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

External links

• Interview with Boubat
• Edouard Boubat at Luminous Lint