MEMORABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF EDOUARD BOUBAT, INSCRIBED TO BOUBAT’S GOOD FRIEND, PHOTOGRAPHER PETER TURNLEY

BOUBAT, Édouard. Édouard Boubat. (Paris): Centre National de la photographie (Collection Photo Poche), (1989). Small octavo, original black stiff photographic wrappers. $250.

Second edition, the distinctive Photo Poche monograph, inscribed by the photographer to his close friend, award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley, “Pour Peter, avec la lumiere de Paris, Edouard, 8 mai 1993” (For Peter, with the light of Paris), featuring 62 black-and-white photographic plates.

Throughout his impressive career, French photographer Édouard Boubat was drawn to “the beauty of life, wherever he found it.” This monograph on “one of France’s most celebrated postwar photographers” appeared as part of the notable Photo Poche series directed by acclaimed French publisher Robert Delpire (New York Times). Second edition, French issue, published one year after first Photo Poche edition. Text in French, with critic Bernard George’s essay on Boubat, along with an afterword by Boubat and 62 full-page photogravures. A rare association copy; from the collection of Boubat’s close friend and colleague, noted Newsweek photojournalist Peter Turnley.

A fine association copy, warmly inscribed.