Photo of Bretagne, possibly by Lucien Clergue
Photo: 11.25" x 16"
Frame: 14" x 18.5"

Lucien Clergue
Lucien Clergue (French: [klɛʁg]; 14 August 1934 - 15 November 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013.

Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory.

In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso. During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of travelling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the « Saltimbanques ». He also worked on a series whose subject was carrion.

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