
Lella, Bretagne, c. 1970
Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper
37.4 x 25.8 cm (40.5 x 30.4 cm)
Private collection
Édouard Boubat (13 September, 1923–died Paris 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.
Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He 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. 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, and later worked as a freelance photographer…
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