Lovers Through the Lens of Édouard Boubat

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France’s most renowned romantic photographer, Édouard Boubat’s photographs are known to celebrate the beauty and simplicity of life, a thread that connects people’s daily life together. Deeply affected by World War II, Boubat’s photography represented exactly the mind of the photographer, as he put it: “Because I know war, because I know the horror, I don’t want to add it… After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me, photography was the means to achieve this.”

Here are 29 wonderful vintage photographs capture intimate moments between lovers by Boubat:

Bride at the Saint-Roch Church, Paris, 1952.

Two lovers near the Ourcq Canal, France, 1952.

Young couple walking in a street of Chinatown, San Francisco, 1953.

Bashful lovers, New Orleans, 1953.

Lovers in the Luxembourg Garden, Paris, 1955.

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