Permanent Collection

 Photography

Southern Alleghenies

Museum of Art

Édouard Boubat

(French, b. 1923)

Children in the First Snow, Paris, 1955

Gelatin silver print,  16" x 12"

Gift of the artist

(92.017)

 

Édouard Boubat's series of 15 gelatin silver prints represents the artist's work from 1950 through 1980 while on assignment in Fontainebleau, Paris, Normandy, Mexico, Cahors, Portugal, and Spain.  A French photojournalist, Boubat depicts life in the streets using a 35 mm. camera.  One of the European heirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment photography," he captures an event in a fraction of a second to give the incident its proper context.  The scene illustrated here captures a moment of lighthearted gaiety.

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