It's A Wonderful Life

First edition of It's A Wonderful Life by Edouard Boubat. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some minor foxing to the end pages only. 

About

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.