Edouard Boubat

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Édouard Boubat (1943)

Édouard Boubat (born September 13, 1923 in Paris , † June 30, 1999 in Montrouge ) was a French photographer and photojournalist .

life and work

Édouard Boubat studied from 1938 to 1942 at the École Estienne (ESAIG) in Paris and then worked as Fotograveur . As a reaction to the senselessness and horror of World War II , he began to take photos himself from 1946 in order to show the beauty of life in "peaceful, human photographs". In 1947 he won the Kodak Prize of the Salon de Photographie of the Bibliothèque nationale . At the same time he met the US photographer W. Eugene Smith .

La petite fille aux feuilles mortes , Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, 1947
Lella , Brittany, 1947

In May 1950, the first pictures of Boubat were published in Camera magazine. In 1951 he exhibited together with Brassaï , Robert Doisneau , Paul Facchetti and Izis in the bookstore and gallery La Hune ; In the same year he met Bertie Gilou, the art director of Réalités , an important magazine in France in the 1950s , and began working as a freelance press photographer for the magazine. His first report took him to Spain, where he documented a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1952 , and more worldwide travel reports were to follow. In 1953 he spent four months in the USA , where he photographed for a special edition of “Réalités”, and then toured South America , the Sahara , Russia , and the Middle and Far East in 1954 . From 1966 until the 1970s he worked on various television productions in France and Sweden . In 1971 he was honored with the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal . From the early 1980s, worldwide travel reports from New York City , San Francisco or Japan and Korea followed . In 1988 Boubat was honored with the Hasselblad Prize .

Boubat is next to his contemporaries Lucien Clergue , Jean Dieuzaide , Robert Doisneau, Janine Niepce , Willy Ronis and Sabine Weiss , all members of the re-established after the war agency Rapho , were the most important representatives of the humanist influenced social documentation in press photography. For Édouard Boubat, photography was a means to approach people directly but respectfully and to explore their individual fate. He preferred to photograph simple farming families or people on the street, whom he engaged in a harmless conversation and photographed without exposing them. Most of the people portrayed appear peaceful and integrated into their surroundings despite their sometimes obvious poverty. In Boubat's mostly black and white works , the focus is less on the pretentious, sensational, and more on the visual exploration of the world and its inhabitants. The author Jacques Prévert called Boubat a "correspondent of peace"

The exhibition The Family of Man , initiated by Edward Steichen in 1955 and intended to show, as a résumé of humanistic reportage photography, “how much people all over the world look alike”, also included Boubat's work. The traveling exhibition, which was unique at the time, was shown worldwide from 1959.

Awards

bibliography

Boubat publications

Monographs

  • Bernard Boubat, Geneviève Anhoury: Edouard Boubat . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89660-253-5

Web links

Commons : Édouard Boubat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Édouard Boubat: intimacies Book King International, Paris 1990 Introduction
  2. ↑ Michel Frizot: New History of Photography. Könemann, 1998, pp. 623ff., ISBN 3-8290-1327-2
personal data
SURNAME Boubat, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1999
Place of death Montrouge