A selection of 80 of his images by the great surrealist photographer
"La parenthese surrealiste" The Centre Pompidou is opening a new area devoted to the exhibition of photography. This new photography gallery will provide free access to viewers, with 3 exhibitions dedicated to historic or contemporary photography each year, thus revealing the wide-ranging variety of the Centre Pompidou's remarkable collection of 40,000 photographs: one of the finest in the world and the most important in Europe. For its opening, there will be an exhibition devoted to the work of Jacques-Andre' Boiffard, the great surrealist photographer, through a selection of 80 of his photographs. A founding member of La Revolution surrealiste, Breton's accredited photographer for Nadja, and then Bataille's for the review Documents, Jacques-Andre' Boiffard is the last great Surrealist photographer who has never featured in a retrospective. The Centre Pompidou finally pays tribute to him. Curator Mnam/cci Clement Cheroux. (Image: Renee Jacobi, vers 1930, Epreuve gelatino-argentique, tirage tardif Centre Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris - Don en 1986)