Édouard
Boubat was born in Paris September 13 1923 and died in Paris on June 30 1999. A rench photojournalist and art
photographer Boubat 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 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 the world 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
