Astonishing moments of history

1880- Newcastle, UK, Black Gate, close-up of the gateway with a woman leaning against a shop doorway.

Angela Luff could not attend the local 1953 Coronation party in Hortensia Road, Chelsea, London because she had measles. The organisers relented and said she could attend providing she sat a certain distance from the other partygoers.

 Édouard Boubat was born in 1923. He spent his childhood in Paris and studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. From 1952 to 1967, he traveled around the world taking pictures, then worked freelance with the Rapho agency. His friend, the poet Jacques Prévert, called him the “correspondent of peace.” Boubat died on June 30th, 1999, at the age of 75. Below are some of his amazing photographs that capture everyday life around the world from between the 1940s and 1960s.