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Edouard Boubat was a renowned photographer known for his unique style and profound understanding of light and shadow. His work spans various genres, including street photography and landscape photography, and is highly appreciated by photography enthusiasts and professionals alike.

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“The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.”

Important Book Stars Important Things

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“Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.”

Firsts Stills Light Photographer Brands Brand New Enchanted

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“In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.”

Ifs Way Stills Facts Kissing Photograph Stolen Stolen Kisses

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“Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.”

People Shows Three Millions Taken Photograph Cents Unnecessary Pyramids Postcards

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“I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.”

Ifs Thinking Made Would Be Secret Photographer Disappear

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“All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.”

Firsts Moments Chance Type Photography Sight Clean Meetings Photograph Expected Encounters Canvas Love At First Sight Wipe Coups Chance Encounters

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“There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.”

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“Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.”

Thinking Way Should Ideas Expression Depends Photographer My Way Way Of Thinking

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“Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.”

World Feels Sometimes Whole Pain Morning Wonderful Fronts Flower Errors Photographer Clouds Envy Painter Dependent Exterior Bouquets

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“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

Life Is Vulnerability Untouchables

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“Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.”

Moments Happens Differences Presses Photograph Occupation Leisure Buttons

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“Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.”

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“The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.”

Shows Watches Photographer Wander

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“To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.”

Painting Photography Quests Hunts Music Love Pilgrimage I Love Music

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“There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.”

World Needs I Can Important Sometimes Beautiful Faces Certain Suffering Turns Girl Flower Tvs Add Photograph Cruelty Peaceful Turn-on Beautiful Girl Vases

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“A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Real Reality I Believe Ability Moral Records Alive Special Subjects Honest Duty Lucky Photographer Being True Witness Unusual Marvelous Moral Duty

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“To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.”

World Cameras Everyday Communicate

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About the Author

Born: September 13, 1923
Died: June 30, 1999
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 17

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