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The exhibition traces the beginnings of the photographer, from 1946 to 1957, to try, not to unravel all the mysteries of Edouard Boubat, but to understand how the photographer’s eye was formed. What were his first subjects? Were his look, his style and his poetry present from his very first photographs?

This exhibition features never-before-seen images and rare period prints alongside iconic photographs of his work. Note that a certain number of the prints exhibited were made by Édouard Boubat himself, which allows us to see his mastery of printing and to touch the emotion he felt while developing his own photographs. Each image on display says something about the photographer by telling the story of his first encounters and photographic discoveries.

Édouard Boubat, The Sweetness of the Gaze consists of three chapters. The exhibition opens with the photographs of Lella, Édouard Boubat’s first great love and photographic subject. Then, through his first photographs of Paris, we see the evolution of his gaze as a photographer, close to the French humanist scene, which gradually finds its own identity. Finally, the Galerie Rouge exhibits the first reports of the photographer made in Portugal, Spain, Italy and the United States for magazines U.S. Camera and Realities.