Today in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opened the exhibition "Pierre Bula /Pierre Boulat. Retrospective

Today, March 26, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Tver br, 9) in the Moscow International Festival of the Photo Biennale 2010 opens the exhibition "Pierre Bula /Pierre Boulat. Retrospective ».

Pierre Bula not studied art, he studied photography. He always said: "I like the plumber, just doing my job the photographer. Work hard, often thankless, but he did it honestly and with passion. He practiced photography on a daily basis, he saw, he thought, spoke and wrote in the language of photography, and was not for him more freedom than the pictures that he loved: the life, people, women (at first), friends, clouds, suicide ... All but war and poverty, for they do not bear the misfortunes of another. Artur Rubinstein, Yves Saint-Laurent, the cadets at West Point, Polish miners, the smile of the Virgin Mary at Fra Angelico ... And he took them all equally well. For six decades, it was his happiness. But he never sought easy solutions. I remember the summer when he decided to withdraw the motion of stars in the sky. He could just buy the necessary for this lens. No, he chose to make the lens itself, using details from the designer, and we spent all night on the terrace of the month of August with his camera, looking at the sky ... For him, it was also part of the picture: something to invent, and the ideas he had set; technically all think and do, and he has been out opportunities; take a picture and share the result with all the others - in that he himself had never refused. He loved to photograph and because he loved to show their pictures. It was not egotism, it was not vanity. He thus shared with his other pleasures. That he had loved - to share with others the joy of life and be free. Drive through the whole of Europe behind the wheel of his car, fly a biplane, risking a break, to overcome the South Lebanon hills arafatkoy on the head, be in the thick of anti-American demonstrations in China ... to take a picture. All of Pierre's life in this - at the end of his lens.

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Olivier Kappelen said of him: "Thin people's perception of the world and allowed him to be right in the center of all that, what he was looking: whether it is light, the substance or character. He is a shaman, was both actor and performer, and, ultimately, the creator, as added to the bare facts of their own "look", which thanks to his remarkable agility allowed to see all virtual, tayascheesya in reality, ignore all the possible its interpretation. He endlessly enriched and deepened it, for he had given all to see ... The main thing for him was the constant updating photos. So he took off, trying to always be in the heart of the nascent movement ».

Pierre Bula was born June 3, 1924 in the small village and the department of Saint-Marne. We can say that he was born with a camera in his hands: All his life he lived, thought, acted, wrote only for the sake of photography and photography. In 1938 he organized a small laboratory for the manifestation of amateur pictures and begins to take photos to documents to City Hall. In 1940 he entered the National School of Photography and Film in Paris, which ends in 1943, the best in the issue. To avoid forced labor in Germany, he moved from the occupied territory of France in the free zone and is working in Vichy in the photographic service of the state (S. C. P.).

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Immediately after the liberation of France from German occupation, Pierre Bula starts working photographer for the weekly Samedi soir , then in France-dimanche, Elle and Paris-Press. He takes political figures, events, news, met with the Middle East and makes his first trip to the U.S., extending for 4 months.

In 1948, Bula goes to Cairo, where published the book " Images of Egypt. Returning to Paris in 1950, he opened a studio of fashion and is an independent photographer for Paris and the American press. Makes a series of reports for the weekly Look Magazine - «Small Hotel in Paris", "Quarter Gout d'Or", "Lost Childhood", which receives the prize for the Encyclopedia Britannica ».

C 1955 Pierre Bula works in the famous American magazine Life Magazine, which in 1957 signed her first contract. His collaboration with Life will end only with the closure of the magazine in December 1972. News, politics, fashion, portraits of celebrities, reports from around the world - this is his theme.

During this time, Pierre Bula makes some sensational stories. He becomes the first Western journalist, who arrived in the USSR since the end of World War II (1955), the first Western journalist in post-revolutionary China (1964). Bula doing now famous stories "academy West Point, USA" (1957), "Look at the American woman" (1957), "The Palestinians" (1970), "The fight against drugs in the Mediterranean basin" (1970).

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Then he makes a few magazine covers for Time.

In 1972, Stanley Kubrick chooses Pierre Bula photo of the first part of the movie "Space Odyssey 2001».

After the closure of Life magazine Pierre Bula received 200 kg of archival materials - black and white and color negatives, which are now stored in the archives of the agency "Cosmos". He again became an independent photographer, produces a series of Time Life Books book about the Sahara Desert and is working under a contract with People Magazine for five years. It also cooperates with the Smithsonian and magazines: Geo, Le Figaro Magazine, Actuel, Newton au Japon, Le National Geographic Magazine, which makes a great reportage of Carrara. Participates in several collective projects: "Day in the life of Australia", "Hello Singapore", "3 days in France. In 1984, Bula makes catalog for an exhibition of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

In 1982 begins collaboration with Pierre Bula, Paris Match, which will last for 10 years and will reveal him as a master of the big story. This is the work of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, the First Crusade, Margaret Mitchell ... reporting on fashion, on the occasion of twenty years of creativity by Yves Saint Laurent, an essay about "the life of the French in 2017, on the Danube and the journey of Christopher Columbus.

Two of his reports for Paris Match will be presented at the exhibitions: "Battle of Normandy" at the Gallery of Olympus Forum des Halles (1984), work in three parts of the French Revolution "in the gallery at the Canon area of Beaubourg (1988).

In 1992, Pierre Bula participates in the International Festival in Perpignan Visa pour l'Image with the exhibition "My years of work in Life, 50 years of photography and published a book with the same title. This exhibition will be shown the regional offices of the National Fund for Contemporary Art (FNAC) - Chambre claire gallery in Paris and the Festival Arret sur l'Image in Bordeaux in April 1993.

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In 1992, the gallery Les Procedes in Vanves shows the exhibition of Pierre Bula "Women". At the festival in Perpignan Visa pour l'Image, he puts the work, made especially for this festival of Perpignan, there he is! "(1993), and in 1994 he awarded the medal" Knight of Literature and the Arts ».

The National Fund for Contemporary Art (FNAC) gets about a dozen works of Pierre Bula on fashion and a series of North Africans in Paris.

In the same year Pierre Bula starts work on Project 'Ageing nose taster of wine "- a book with black and white and some color photographs of wine and taste, devoted to Lionel, tasters Bernard Loiseau. Bula, published a book "Good night, Pierre", a humorous fantasy, and continued his journalistic work (the exhibition in a Paris gallery Natalie Serussi).

Pierre Bula, who at the end of life suffered from Parkinson's disease, died January 11, 1998, devoting 60 years of successful work in the field of photojournalism.

Curator: Annie Bula

Exhibition In MMSI will last until April 25.

Source: mdf.ru