Edouard Boubat (1923 - 1999)
1923-09-13Paris, France1999-06-30Montrouge, FranceFrance
Edouard Boubat
Édouard Boubat was a French photojournalist and art 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.
Date and place of birt: | 13 september 1923, Paris, France |
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Date and place of death: | 30 june 1999, Montrouge, France |
Nationality: | France |
Period of activity: | XX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Journalist, Photographer |
Genre: | Documentary photography, Reportage |
Art style: | Post War Art, Contemporary realism, 20th Century Realism, Contemporary art |