Spouse(s) LellaSophie Role Photographer Name Edouard Boubat | Website www.edouard-boubat.fr Children Bernard Boubat Education Ecole Estienne | |
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Died June 30, 1999, Montrouge, France Books La Photographie, Donne-moi quelque chose qui ne meure pas, Amoureux de Paris, L\' ombre de l\'autre, Intimacies Awards Hasselblad Award, David Octavius Hill Medal | ||
Edouard Boubat - Photographer Paris France
Édouard Boubat ([buba]; 1923–1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
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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 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 the world 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.
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