Edouard Boubat

Edouard Boubat (Paris, Montmartre, 1923 - Montrouge, 1999) was a Photographe French, chronicler of the Parisian post-war period.

Biography

Edouard Boubat was born in the district Paris IEN from Montmartre on September 13rd, 1923.

He is initiated with photography, in 1946, after the war and obtains in 1947 the Prix Kodak. Then it begins like deferring for the monthly magazine Réalités.

In 1984, it obtains the National Grand Prix of Photography in Paris and in 1988, the Prix of the Foundation Hasselblad.

He died in Montrouge on June 30th, 1999.

Its work

Photoreporter right after the Second world war, it is marked by the atrocities and decides to devote its work to the celebration of the life.

This trade gives him enough freedom and it multiplies the voyages. It makes also the portrait of many personalities like: Jacques Prévert which will say of him “ Boubat, a correspondent of peace ”, Bachelard, Cioran, Doisneau, Genet, Yourcenar and much of others.

It is particularly interested to show the empty moments of the life and in exalter all happiness. It presents “a daily newspaper stripped but full with grace, poetry and a timeless plenitude. ”

Photographs

Lella, Brittany , 1947. Lella was its MUSE.
Park of Saint Cloud, Paris , 1981
Edouard Boubat (photographs) and Genevieve Anhoury: Edouard Boubat , Editions of Martinière, 2004,368 pages. Its most famous stereotypes.

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