Édouard Boubat

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.{{cite news|last=Riding|first=Alan|title=Edouard Boubat, Photographer With Poetic Eye for Children, 75|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/arts/edouard-boubat-photographer-with-poetic-eye-for-children-75.html|access-date=5 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 July 1999}}{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Val|title=Obituary: Edouard Boubat|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-edouard-boubat-1106838.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-edouard-boubat-1106838.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 February 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=17 July 1999}}{{cite news|last=Muir|first=Robin|title=Shots from the heart|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/shots-from-the-heart-1113975.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/shots-from-the-heart-1113975.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 February 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=21 August 1999}}

• 1947 – Kodak Prize{{cite web|title=Edouard Boubat|url=https://www.who.int/features/2009/photoarchives/boubat/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611032135/http://www.who.int/features/2009/photoarchives/boubat/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2009|publisher=World Health Organization|access-date=5 September 2020}}
• 1971 – David Octavius Hill Medal{{cite web|title=Träger der David-Octavius-Hill-Medaille|url=http://www.deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com/03_dohill/alle_preistraeger.html|publisher=Deutsche Fotografische Akademie|access-date=6 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624140628/http://www.deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com/03_dohill/alle_preistraeger.html|archive-date=24 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}
• 1984 – Grand Prix National de la Photographie
• 1988 – Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography{{cite web|title=1988 Hasselblad Award Winner|url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/edouard-boubat/en/|publisher=Hasselblad Foundation|access-date=6 February 2014}}

File:Lella,_Edouard_Boubat,_Bretagne,_1947.jpg|Lella 1947.

File:Remi_écoutant_la_mer,_Edouard_Boubat,_Paris,_1995.jpg|Remi 1995.

• 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.
• 1978 Musée d'Art Moderne Carilo, Mexico
• Musée N. Niépce, France
• Chalon s/Saône, France
• Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
• 1976 Witkin Gallery, New York (USA) and travelling.
• 1975 Galerie du Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France
• 1973 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
• 1971 India, Galerie Rencontre, Paris
• 1967 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 22 November – 31 December 1954, Édouard Boubat, Limelight Gallery, New York, USA{{Citation | author1=Gee, Helen | title=Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir | year=1997 | publication-date=1997 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1817-6 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/limelightgreenwi00geeh }}

• 1951 Galerie La Hune, Paris, France
• 1949 Salon, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France

• 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}}.

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• {{cite web|title=Entre Vues: Frank Horvat – Edouard Boubat (interview)|date=July 1986|url=http://www.horvatland.com/pages/entrevues/01-boubat-en_en.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415094355/http://www.horvatland.com/pages/entrevues/01-boubat-en_en.htm|archive-date=15 April 2012|publisher=Frank Horvat Photography}}

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• [http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Edouard__Boubat/A/ Édouard Boubat at Luminous Lint]
• [http://www.thegreatcat.org/the-cat-in-art-and-photos-2/cats-in-art-20th-century/edouard-boubat-1923-1999-french/ Edouard Boubat and his Cat Photos]

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Category:1923 births

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