Jacques-André Boiffard - Photographs.

Jacques-André Boiffard was born in Épernon, France in 1902. Originally a medical student in Paris, he became involved with the Surrealist movement in 1924 after meeting André Breton through Pierre Naville. He abandoned medical studies temporarily to focus on Surrealist research, contributing in writing to La Révolution surréaliste and becoming assistant to Man Ray.

Boiffard’s photographic work from the late 1920s through early 1930s is characterised by manipulation of scale, unconventional points of view, use of strong light-dark contrast, multiple exposures, photograms and detailed documentary images of Paris. He illustrated André Breton’s Nadja (1928), worked with Georges Bataille’s Documents magazine, and produced provocative images such as Le Gros Orteil (“The Big Toe”) and photographs featuring flies stuck on flypaper.

After operating a studio with Éli Lotar and participating in travel-photography projects, Boiffard ceased artistic photography. Following his father’s death in 1935 he returned to medical studies and became a radiologist, working until 1959. He died in Paris in 1961.

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