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