3/11/2023 0 Comments Vue esprit 2015 reviewThe passages are drawn from video interviews shown at an exhibit of Lucien’s images at Le Grand Palais in Paris in the winter of 2015-16. It is an elementary selection, a glimpse of a life lived large. The narrative which follows is like looking out the window of a train passing through imperishable times populated with enthralling personalities. Perched on the Rhone in Southern France, Arles wears a patina of antiquity on every public surface – cramped lurid biscuit-colored edifices and decaying gray stones, all of which dismantles modern memory into sepia tones.Īmong Lucien’s oeuvre are photographs of female nudes posing in the savage terrain of Camargue: stunning meditations on beauty and nature, on the surfaces of life and art, brilliantly sculpted by shadows and dimming light, crafted by unending days at the water’s edge. He also bequeathed to his native Arles – his lifelong home – an unalterable destiny as a fervid celebration of photography each summer. Lucien accepted the post so that he could “defend photography.” Amplifying a perceived neglect of his craft, he said, “Photographs are the poor relatives of everyone.”īrimming with energy and charm, imagination and talent, Lucien soared to great heights in photography, a fate he was to believe in with all his being. In 2013, he took on a year-long term as the President of the académie. Lucien Clergue (1934 – 2014) was the first photographer to be elected to the Paris-based l’académie des Beaux-Arts. Jean-Maurice Rouquette, co-founder of Rencontres d’Arles, died on Tuesday, Jan. ![]() ![]() Passages: His iconic presence in Arlesian culture defies simple grief. Nude by Lucien Clergue at Le Grand Palais
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