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This photographic retrospective of the renowned contemporary photographers includes--and looks beyond--his famous Picasso portraits and sumptuous nudes to explore the lifelong obsessions and passions of a brilliant artist. This collection of almost one hundred and fifty 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 personalities, 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.
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Poésie Photographique, Lucien Clergue
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Poésie Photographique
- Language
- English, French, German
- Authors
- Lucien Clergue
- Publisher
- Prestel Pub
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 3791328506
- ISBN13
- 9783791328508
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Art
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- This photographic retrospective of the renowned contemporary photographers includes--and looks beyond--his famous Picasso portraits and sumptuous nudes to explore the lifelong obsessions and passions of a brilliant artist. This collection of almost one hundred and fifty 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 personalities, 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.