Édouard Boubat

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/

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.

• Illustration — Lella 1947. • Illustration — 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

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