Édouard Boubat

Édouard Boubat 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 under German rule during [World War II|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.

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
1982 Lausanne, Switzerland.
*Witkin Gallery, New York
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 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