Born in 1923 in Paris, France. Died 1999 in Paris, France.

Édouard Boubat began taking photographs in 1946 as a reaction to the horrors of the Second World War. He focused on the lives of ordinary people and avoided anything sensationalistic. Together with Lucien Clergue, Jean Dieuzaide, Robert Doisneau, Janine Niepce, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, Boubat belonged to a photographic movement known as photographie humaniste. Like the photographers mentioned above, Boubat belonged to the Rapho photo agency, which was newly founded after the war. For fifteen years he worked as a photojournalist for the magazine Réalités. The poet Jacques Prévert called him a “peace photographer.”

Boubat’s works are represented in international collections including Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA, among others.