Edouard Boubat was a humanist photographer. Although being a “post war” photographer just after WWII working for the magazine Réalités, seeing too much atrocities led him to devote his work to the celebration of life. He was particularly interested in showing the empty moments of life and exalting the happiness resulting of these moments.
What can we blame the photograph, if not its apparent simplicity ? “Press the button, we’ll do the rest …” We like to say that the photographer has nothing to do. And it’s somewhat true. Except that everything resides in this nothing. Do not get in the way of this nothing, this elusive. Photography is so simple it does not admit of repentance (repentance : changes, corrections during process). This requires a dazzling sense of composition, of framing. Edouard Boubat.
