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Lucien Clergue   (French, 1934) 

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Lucien Clergue Biography
1934   Born in Arles, France
1959   Guest photographer on Jean Cocteau’s film Le Testament d’Orphée
1966   Recieves the Louis Lumière prize for his film Le drame du taureau
1969   Founded the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles with Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Michel Tournier
1974   Clergue is elected a member of the Académie in Arles
1979   Recieves National Order of Merit from President Giscard d’Estaing, France
Recieves a doctorate in photography at the Université de Provence, Marseille, France
1986   Clergue is awarded Photographer of the Year by the Foto Fietsa in Higeshikawa, Japan
2003   Presented with the decoration Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by French president Jacques Chirac
2005   Awarded the Lucie Award for the Outstanding Life Achievement in Fine Arts in Photography
Selected Exhibitions
2009   Lucien Clergue : The Intimate Picasso, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007   Lucien Clergue, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA (solo)
2006   Lucien Clergue: Fifty Years of Photography - Vintage and Recent Works, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005   John Stevenson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004   Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France (solo)
2003   Retrospectif: Lucien Clergue, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002   Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France (solo)
1999   Retrospective exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
1998   4 Decades of Photography, SoHo Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY
1997   Signs of Gods and Goddesses: Four Decades of Lucien Clergue’s Photography, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (solo)
1993   Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1991   Picasso-Clergue on Bullfights, Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, NY
1986   Retrospective ICP, Middle Town Building, New York, NY (solo)
1985   International Center of Photography, New York, NY (solo)
Retrospective, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (solo)
1973   ICA, London, England (solo)
1962   Pavillion de Marsan, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (solo)
1961   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Literature
2005   Lucien Clergue: histoire d’a, Edizioni del Museo, Brescia, Italy
Portraits, Actes Sud, Arles, France
2003   Poésie Photographique, preface by Manfred Heiting, edited by E-M. Turck, Prestel Verlag, Munich, Germany
1996   Phèdre. La suprême déclaration d’amour, texts by A. Delbée, J & D, Biarritz, France
1985   Lucien Clergue, Eros and Thanatos, texts by M. Tournier and M. Fulton, New York Graphic Society, Boston, MA
1964   Lucien Clergue, Photographe, Die Arche Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland
1960   Poesie der Fotographie, introduction by J. Cocteau, DuMont Shauberg, Cologne, Germany
1957   Corps mémorable, poems by P. Eluard, Seghers, Paris, France




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