“SOME OF THE MOST TENDER AND ROMANTIC IMAGES OF MID-20TH-CENTURY EUROPEAN LIFE”

BOUBAT, Édouard. Pauses. (Paris): Contrejour, (1988). Square quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $300.

Second edition, scarce French issue, with 119 luminous black-and-white photographic plates. From the collection of Boubat’s close friend and colleague, noted photojournalist Peter Turnley.

In a career that spanned six decades and crossed the globe, Édouard Boubat (1923-99) "captured some of the most tender and romantic images of mid-20th-century European life." To noted critic Michel Guerrin, Boubat will be remembered as "a marvelous photographer and a photographer of the marvelous." One of the photographer's most acclaimed works, Pauses contains timeless images collected from around the world, in which Boubat was "always searching for moments of purity and grace." Scarce second edition, French issue, published same year as second edition in English; preceded by first edition, published in France in 1983. Introduction by Claude Nori; preface by Boubat. Text in French. From the collection of Boubat's close friend for over 20 years, award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has chronicled "almost every important international news event of the last 15 years" for Newsweek and Harper's Magazine (New York Times); signed by Turnley.

Images quite fresh and clean, bright price-clipped dust jacket. A fine copy.