Saturday, February 25, 2006

Edouard Boubat


I was web wandering through ms baker's reflections this afternoon, in a moment of peace before rushing out for the rest of the day, and while wandering I discovered Edouard Boubat, a French photographer who started work after World War 2 saying, 'After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this...'

There's a rather good interview with him here.

He said, "I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it."

5 comments:

Mrs. G.F. said...

Beautiful photo, I have never seen it before...

Di Mackey said...

I loved it too ... ms baker has another lovely one of a woman on a beach on her site.

I'd never heard of Boubat, I loved what I found. :)

Harvey Molloy said...

Gorgeous photo!
kia ora!

Di Mackey said...

Kia ora and get well soon, Harvey.

I wanted to write a link to over to your latest post but waiting to find the 'write' mood for it.

Di Mackey said...

ms baker, i loved that photo, thanks for writing of him, i might never have found him otherwise.