Jacques Bourboulon is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography

Nude photography

Nude photography is a style of art photography which depicts the nude human body as a study. Nude photography should be distinguished from glamour photography, which places more emphasis on the model and her/his sexuality, and treats the model as the primary subject. Nude photography should also be...

. In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue

Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud

Louis Feraud

Louis Féraud was a French fashion designer and artist.In 1950, Louis Féraud created his first "Maison de Couture" in Cannes and by 1955 had established a couture house in Paris on the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré....

, and Carven. In the mid-1970s he switched to nude photography.

Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a Pentax

Pentax cameras

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 camera and focus on bright light and sharp contrasts. His most typical pictures portray girls and women on the Spanish island of Ibiza

Ibiza

Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...

, playing on the juxtaposition of blue sky, white walls, and sun-tanned skin.

The most famous model of Jacques Bourboulon has been French actress Eva Ionesco

Eva Ionesco

Eva Ionesco is a French actress and film director, born in Paris. She is the daughter of Romanian-French photographer Irina Ionesco....

, whom he photographed nude when she was 10.

Photographs by Bourboulon have appeared in such magazines as Playmen

Playmen

Playmen was an Italian adult entertainment magazine. It was founded in 1967 by a mother of three, Adelina Tattilo, reaching fame as Italy's Playboy magazine....

in Italy, High Society

High Society (magazine)

High Society is a U.S. pornographic magazine. In addition to hardcore pictorials of nude models, it also has feature articles and occasional celebrity pictorials.-History:High Society was first published in May 1976....

in its German edition, Club International

Club International

Club International is a United Kingdom-based magazine that depicts softcore pornographic pictures of women. It is a sister magazine of American magazine Club. Club International was founded in 1972 and is published every four weeks, making thirteen issues per year...

in the United Kingdom, and Chasseur d'Images and PHOTO

Photo (French magazine)

Photo is a French magazine , about photography, previously published 10 times a year by Hachette Filipacchi Médias, and currently owned by Magweb. It concentrates on the artistic aspects of photography, rather than technical aspects...

in France. They have been distributed online at MET ART

MET ART

MetArt is a softcore pornography website owned by HLP General Partners Incorporated of Santa Monica, California. The site features erotic photographs of partially or completely naked women, and has been online since circa 1999....

 and, between 2003 and 2008, at his official site jacques-bourboulon.net.

His 20 photography books sold over 400,000 copies.

He also produced calendars for Pentax and BASF

BASF

BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Germany. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik . Today, the four letters are a registered trademark and the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock...

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Selected Books by Jacques Bourboulon

• Conte de Fées, 1980 - Japan: Tatsumi Verlag
• Des corps naturels, 1980 - Éditions Filipacchi - ISBN 2-85018-184-6
• Eva (portfolio), 1981 - AGEP Ed.
• Coquines, 1982 - Kaktus Ed. - ISBN 2-85949-043-4
• Attitudes, 1984 - Paris: Carrère - ISBN 2-86804-010-1
• Mélodies, 1987 - Paris: JMV - ISBN 2-86660-025-8
• Photographier le nu, 1996 - Editions VM - ISBN 2-86258-169-0

Selected Magazine Pictorials by Jacques Bourboulon

• Club International (UK edition), June 1975
• ZOOM (French edition), January–February 1976 (#34)
• Playboy
  Playboy
  Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
  
  (Italian edition), October 1976 - "Classe del 1965!" (pictorial of Eva Ionesco)
• Siesta (Spain), #8 (1977)
• ZOOM (French edition), July/August 1979 (#64) - "Images de petites filles"
• PHOTO (French edition), June 1980 (#153) - "Tendres et naturelles - Jacques Bourboulon : une fête du printemps féminin"
• Playmen, July 1980 - "Le 'preferile' di Bourboulon / Vera / Effetto godibilita`"
• Photo Cinema Magazine, April 1981 (#18) - "images: la jeune fille de Bourboulon"
• Playmen, January 1982 - "Il Paradiso di Bourboulon"
• Photo Reporter, November 1982 (#49)
• Photo Reporter, November 1984 (#73) - "Les nymphettes impudiques de BOURBOULON"
• Lui
  Lui
  Lui is a French adult entertainment magazine created in November 1963 by Daniel Filipacchi, a fashion photographer turned publisher, Jacques Lanzmann, a jack of all trades turned novelist, and Frank Ténot, a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic..The objective was to bring some charm "à la...
  
  (German edition), December 1984
• Ele e Ela (Brazil), #185 (1984)
• Photo Reporter, December 1985 (#86) - "Vive La Fête"
• Chasseur d'Images, March 1986 (#80)
• Photo Reporter, August 1986 (#94) - "Mes 250 femmes"
• High Society (German edition), #8 of 1986 (pictorial of Stephanie)
• Rebel Magazine, Fall-Winter 2004/2005 (#8)