Muséum national d'histoire naturelle; Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro

Jacques-André Boiffard was a French photographer and filmmaker active from the 1920s through the postwar period. He worked across documentary, experimental, and surrealist modes, collaborating with key figures in the avant-garde and producing images that ranged from intimate portraiture to architectural and bodily studies. His practice bridged photography's early modernist experiments with postwar reassessment of the medium's documentary and aesthetic capacities.