Miroirs: Autoportraits
Paris: Denoël, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 192, [8]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over orange cloth, with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Collection of 84 striking b/w photographs depicting the portrait of some of the most renown French writers of the period, such as Marcel Arland, Arrabal, Dominique Aury, René Barjavel, Hervé Bazin, Eugène Ionesco, Paul Guimard, René Fallet, Pierre Daninos, Hélène Cixous, Sébastien Japrisot, René de Obaldia, Francis Ponge, Françoise Sagan, Philippe Sollers, etc.. Each photograph faces a text page in which the photographed personalities tell what they think of their image. Moderate sunning on dust-jacket, with tiny tear at upper front joint. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Dust-jacket in overall good, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition. g+. Item #36556
About the author: Edouard Boubat (1923, Paris, France - June 30, 1999, Paris) was a French art photographer. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer after WWII. Boubat took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine Réalités. The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "Peace Correspondent." His son Bernard is also a photographer.
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