Marcel Bovis

He taught himself photography and from 1927 started to produce photos of Paris, predominantly at night, and after 1936 became a professional photographer.

This particular exhibition, which was held in Pavillon de Marsan, was a collection of photos he took together with Pierre Mac Orlan.

It records the celebrations of festivals and famous circuses with a humanist sympathy.

[1] In 1941 he joined the professional association Le Rectangle[2] and after it disbanded in 1946 he became one of the founding members of the Le Groupe des XV, an association of French photographers, and in 1952, he exhibited at the World Exhibition of Photography in Lucerne.

In 1992, a large retrospective of his works of was shown in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.