Immediately after the liberation of France from Nazi occupation, Pierre Bula starts working photographer for the weekly «Samedi soir», and 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., where will stay four months.
In 1948, Bula going to Cairo, which published the book "Images of Egypt." Back in 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 Gut d'Or", "Lost Childhood", for which he receives the prize of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Since 1955, Pierre Bula works in the famous American magazine «Life Magazine», which in 1957 signed her first contract. His cooperation with «Life» end only to 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 came to the Soviet Union 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).
Then he makes a few covers for the magazine «Time».
In 1972, Stanley Kubrick chooses Pierre Bula photographer of the first part of the movie "Space Odyssey 2001".
After the closure of the magazine «Life» Pierre Bula received 200 kg of archival materials - black and white and color negatives, which are now in the files of the agency "Cosmos". He again became an independent photographer and produces a series of «Time Life Books» book about the Sahara Desert and is working under a contract with «People Magazine» in five years. It also cooperates with «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 the exhibition of fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent at the Met Museum in New York.
In 1982 begins collaboration with Pierre Bula «Paris Match», which will last for 10 years and allow him to open up as the master of a large 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« Canon »Square 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 name. This exhibition will be shown the regional offices of National Fund of Contemporary Art (FNAC) - Gallery «Chambre claire» in Paris and the Festival «Arret sur l'Image» in Bordeaux in April 1993
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 exhibits the work made specially for this festival of Perpignan, there he is! "(1993), and in 1994, he was awarded the medal" Knight of Literature and Arts ".
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 started working on the project "Aging nose taster of wine" - a book with black and white, and several color photographs of wine and taste, devoted to Lionel, tasters Bernard Loiseau. Bula published 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 Jan. 11, 1998, devoting 60 years of successful work in the field of photojournalism.
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