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.[1][2][3]
2 November – 23 December 2006: Les photographes de Réalités: Édouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Jean-Louis Swiners. Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
15 August – 1 October 2006: French masters: Edouard Boubat and Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1983 Ambassade de France, New York (USA)
1982 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Witkin Gallery, New York (USA)
1980 Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Lausanne Switzerland
1979 Fondation Nationale de la Photographie. Lyon, France.