Édouard Boubat
Édouard Boubat (* September 13, 1923 in Paris, † June 30, 1999 in Montrouge ) was a French photographer and photojournalist.
Life and work
Édouard Boubat studied from 1938-42 at the École Estienne and then worked as Fotograveur. In response to the futility and horror of the Second World War, he began in 1946 to photograph themselves in order to show in " peaceful, human photographs" the beauty of life. In 1947 he won the Kodak Prize of the Salon de Photographie of the Bibliothèque nationale. At the same time he met W. Eugene Smith. In May 1950, the first pictures of Boubat were published in the magazine Camera. In 1951 he exhibited together with Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, Paul Facchetti and Izis from the bookstore and gallery La Hune; in the same year he met Bertie Gilou, the art director of the familiar in France in the 1950s significant Réalités magazine and began working as a freelance press photographer for the magazine. A first report led him to Spain, where he made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela documented in 1952, with more worldwide travel reports should follow. He spent four months in 1953 in the U.S., where he photographed for a special edition of " Réalités ", and then toured South America in 1954, the Sahara, Russia, and the Middle and Far East. From 1966 to the 1970s he worked at various television productions in France and Sweden. In 1971 he was honored with the David Octavius Hill Medal. From the early 1980s, followed again worldwide travel reports from New York City, San Francisco or Japan and Korea. 1988 Boubat was honored with the Hasselblad Prize.
Boubat ranks alongside his contemporaries Lucien Clergue, Jean Dieuzaide, Robert Doisneau, Janine Niepce, Willy Ronis and Sabine Weiss, the members of the re-established after the war Rapho agency were all, the most important representatives of the humanistic and social documentation in press photography. For Édouard Boubat photography was a means in order to access directly, but respectful to the people and to explore his individual fate. He photographed preferred simple peasant families or people on the street that he involved in a harmless conversation and it took pictures without exposing them. In most cases, the portraits and peaceful and integrated in their environment despite their sometimes obvious poverty. In Boubats mostly black and white work is less on the pretentious, attention-getting in the foreground, but rather the visual exploration of the world and its inhabitants. The author Jacques Prévert called Boubat a " correspondent of peace"
In the 1955 by Edward Steichen " people how much all over the world are like " initiated exhibition The Family of Man, which should show as a summary of humanistic photojournalism, even Boubats work began. The time unique major traveling exhibition was shown from 1959 worldwide.
Awards
Bibliography
Publications of Boubat
- Photographies 1950-1987. Éditions du Désastre, 1988, ISBN 2-87770-001-1
- Intimacies Bookking International, Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-87714-045-8 Introduction
Monographs
- Bernard Boubat, Geneviève Anhoury: Edouard Boubat. Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89660-253-5