Edouard Boubat: The Monograph

About this book

In a career that spanned more than fifty years photographer Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) captured the magic of fleeting moments with tenderness and warmth. A contemporary of Brassai and Robert Doisneau and one of the most influential French photographers of the twentieth century Boubat made elegant poetic images - beginning with intimate views of everyday life in his native city of Paris and moving on to striking pictures taken during his travels in Africa India Spain Portugal Mexico and Japan when he was working as a staff photojournalist for the well-known French magazine Realites. Boubats photographs were the subject of a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris in 1976 the same year he published the first major book on his oeuvre. Now five years after the photographers death this luxurious volume presents the entire range of Boubats work in more than three hundred tritone photographs. All his most famous images are here - including those of his muse Lella - along with texts by writers Marguerite Duras Michel Tournier and Jacques Prevert as well as Boubats own writings and notebook excerpts. Developed in close collaboration with Boubats son Bernard and photographer/filmmaker Genevieve Anhoury this authoritative volume is the only existing monograph on the enduringly popular photographer.