This collection of almost 150 images traces the dynamic continuum that is Clergue's career: from the mysterious gypsies of his childhood, and his friendships with Picasso, Cocteau and other avant-garde personalitites, to breathtaking images of sea and sand, riveting nudes and searing portraits. Together these images, some of them never published before, create a showcase of Clergue's decades-long fascination with life, death and the "mysterious in between". This volume also includes a biography that highlights Clergue's accomplishments as an artist, an essay on his ventures into surrealism, and a series of correspondence between Clergue and Jean Cocteau.
Lucien Clergue: Poésie Photographique
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Eva-Monika Turck, Lucien Clergue
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Publication Date:
2003
Print Length: 144 pages
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Jean Cocteau and The Testament of Orpheus
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