It's a Wonderful Life

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Summary: It's a wonderful life
Review: A photographer who sought to create enduring images of the fleeting beauty which he saw in everyday life.

Boubat believed goodness was quite as real and common as evil, and quite as valid a subject for the artist.

He took an almost mystical view of photography, keeping faith in that moment of grace when an unseen hand would bring the camera and subject together in the perfect encounter. "All my photographs, he said, are about meetings and coups de foudre - love at first sight."

It was no use, he insisted, trying to arrange or calculate such moments; the photographer had to be ready at all times, as an archer must have his bow tense before releasing the arrow. Only in that way could he hope to catch the split second that illuminated a life, or an image that symbolised an age.

Some of Boubat's pictures achieved almost mythic status. These included a little girl among shrivelled leaves, an old woman seemingly turned to stone on a park bench and two little girls with arms around one another in a Paris street.

You will love this book, I loved it very much. For those who life & photography matters!

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Summary: beauty in photos coupled with poetry
Review: an interesting collection of work coupled with poetry that the photographer connected with his images. i cannot say that i loved this body of work but it is not dull either
for some reason the poetry belittles it for me