Édouard Boubat
Édouard Boubat (13 September 1923 – 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
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Édouard Boubat
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- Name
- Édouard Boubat
- Born
- 13 September 1923
- Birthplace
- Montmartre, Paris, France
- Died
- 30 June 1999
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- photojournalist · photographer
- Movements
- humanistic photography
- Education
- École Estienne
- Honours
- Hasselblad Award · Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Languages
- French
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Édouard Boubat (13 September 1923 – 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
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Key facts
Key facts
Édouard Boubat studied at École Estienne. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Employment is recorded with Réalités. Work by Édouard Boubat is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Tate, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Hasselblad Award and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
• Name — Édouard Boubat • Born — 13 September 1923 • Birthplace — Montmartre, Paris, France • Died — 30 June 1999 • Place of death — Paris, France • Children — Bernard Boubat • Website — http: www.edouard-boubat.fr/ Édouard Boubat (13 September 1923 – 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
Life and work
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.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Lella 1947. • Illustration — Remi 1995.
Solo
Solo
• 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
Group
Group
• 1951 Galerie La Hune, Paris, France • 1949 Salon, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Life and career
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Life and career
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1923
Édouard Boubat born at 11th arrondissement of Paris.
1999
Édouard Boubat died at Montrouge.
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11th arrondissement of Paris.
Birth place
Montrouge.
Death place
Publications
• Edouard Boubat: Pauses (Bookking International, 1988).. • Édouard Boubat (Centre national de la photographie, 1988).. • Photographies 1950–1987. (Éditions du Désastre, 1988).. • It's a Wonderful Life (Editions Assouline, 1997).. • Édouard Boubat: The Monograph. (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004).. • Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye (Thames & Hudson, 2004)..

Photography of Edouard Boubat, Paris, France, 1947.
edouard Boubat · Paris

Remy listening the sea, Photography of Edouard Boubat, Paris, France, 1995.
Bernard Boubat · Paris
Notable awards
• 1947 – Kodak Prize • 1971 – David Octavius Hill Medal • 1984 – Grand Prix National de la Photographie • 1988 – Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography
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Recognition and collections. Édouard Boubat received Hasselblad Award and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina
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