Self Portrait. c. 1929. Gelatin silver print Jacques-André Boiffard (1902-1961); French photographer, born in Épernon in Eure-et-Loir. He was a medical student in Paris until 1924 when he met André Breton through Pierre Naville, a Surrealist writer, and childhood friend. ...Following his father's death in 1935 Boiffard resumed his studies to earn a doctorate in medicine in 1940 specializing in radiology, once and for all putting an end to his career as a photograper. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Andr%C3%A9_Boiffard] As if destined to become a Surrealist, Boiffard attended the prestigious private École Alsacienne high school in Paris, where he met Pierre Naville, the future editor of the journal La Révolution surréaliste. Naville introduced Boiffard to André Breton, the leader of the Surrealists, in 1924, the year Boiffard joined the group. With Paul Éluard and Roger Vitrac, Boiffard wrote the preface for the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste. He also began work as an assistant in the Man Ray Studio in 1924, where Man Ray taught him photography. In 1928 his photographs were used to illustrate Breton’s novel Nadja, but after a disagreement the 2 artists parted ways. Boiffard left Breton’s Surrealist group and, in 1929, became a member of the splinter group Contre-attaque, led by Georges Bataille. He was a frequent contributor to the journal Documents, a mouthpiece for this circle. In 1929 Boiffard established the photography studio Studios unis with Eli Lotar; it went bankrupt in 1932, after which the 2 photographers traveled widely, staying for a while in Tangiers. In his early days of engagement with the Surrealists, Boiffard was a student of medicine at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. In 1935 he returned to his studies, this time integrating his expertise in photography and film. He graduated and worked as a radiologist at the Hôpital Saint-Luis, Paris, from 1940 to 1959. [https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/artists/24425.html] undefined

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