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Lucien Clergue

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Lucien Clergue (1934- ) has always sought the mythic, universal, and elemental in his photographs of gypsies, landscapes, seascapes, bullfights, and his famous series of sea nudes. "Three subjects are my main interest: death, life, and a kind of no-man's-land in between. The death of the bulls at the bullfight, the nude female in true nature, landscape, seascape, sandscape are the essentials of my permanent research to find the beginnings of our world and ourselves."


Clergue, Lucien.
Aphrodite.
Stuttgart, 1963.

Cocteau, Jean.
Lucien Clergue: numero uno.
Paris: Forces Vives, 1963.

Cocteau, Jean, et al.
Lucien Clergue: photographe.
Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1964.

Clergue, Lucien.
Text excerpts from Frederico Garcia Lorca.
Naissance d'Aphrodite / Birth of Aphrodite.
New York: Brussel and Brussel, 1966.

Clergue, Lucien.
Toros muertos.
New York: Brussels & Brussels, 1966.

Clergue, Lucien.
Née de la vague.
Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1968.

Clergue, Lucien.
Text by Paul Éluard.
Corps mémorable.
Paris: Séghers, 1969.

Clergue, Lucien.
Texts by Jean Cocteau, Manuel Gasser, Jean Marie Magnan, Luc Norin.
Lucien Clergue, photographe.
Zürich: Verlag der Arche, 1970.

Clergue, Lucien.
Genèse: 50 photographies sur des thèmes d'Amers choisis par Saint-John Perse.
Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1973.

Clergue, Lucien.
Introduction by Mario Prassinos.
Camargue secrète.
Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1976.

Magnan, Jean Marie.
Photographies de Lucien Clergue.
Le quart d'heure du taureau.
Paris: Chêne, 1976.

Clergue, Lucien.
La Camargue est au bout des chemins.
Marseille: Agep, 1978.

Clergue, Lucien.
Introduction by Roland Barthes.
Langage des sables.
Marseille: Agep, 1980.

Boissieu, Jean.
Lucien Clergue: vive la Provence et la Camargue.
Paris: Mengès, 1983.

Clergue, Lucien.
Provenza e Camargue.
Udine: Magnus Edizioni, 1983.

Clergue, Lucien.
Introduction by Michel Tournier.
Essay by Marianne Fulton.
Eros and Thanatos.
Boston: NYGS Books, 1985.

Clergue, Lucien.
Essay by Jim Hughes.
Footprints of the Gods: The Point Lobos Saga.
Boco Raton, FL: Iris Publications,1989.

Magnan, J-M., C. Lacroix, and J. Cau.
Lucien Clergue: tauromachies.
Paris: Marval, 1991.

Clergue, Lucien.
Texts by Mauro Corradini, Jean Marie Magnan.
Dialogo: 20 diptici inediti di Lucien Clerque, 1980-1990.
Brescia: Edizioni del Museo, 1991.

Clergue, Lucien.
With Alain Montcouquiol, Jean Cau.
Nimeño II, torero de France.
Paris: Marval, 1992.

Clergue, Lucien.
Picasso, mon ami.
Paris: Plume, 1993.

Clergue, Lucien.
With Françoise Dubost.
Mon paysage: le paysage préféré des Français.
Paris: Marval, 1995.

Clergue, Lucien.
Les gitans.
Paris: Paris, 1996.

Clergue, Lucien.
With texts by Christiane Baroche and others.
Saint-John Perse: poète devant la mer.
Biarritz: J & D Éditions, 1996.

Clergue, Lucien.
Passion passions.
Arles: Actes Sud, 1997.

Clergue, Lucien.
Grands nus.
Heidelberg: Umschau/Braus, 1999.

Clergue, Lucien.
Les baux de Provence.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2000.

Clergue, Lucien.
La nuit de la terre: les tombes de Montmajour, Arles 1955.
Paris: Monum, Editions du Patrimoine, 2001.

Clergue, Lucien.
Arena, signe des sables.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2001.

Clergue, Lucien.
Essay by David LeHardy Sweet.
Jean Cocteau and the Testament of Orpheus: The Photographs.
New York: Viking Studio, 2001.

Clergue, Lucien.
Edited by Eva-Monika Turck.
Lucien Clergue: poésie photographique.
Munich, New York: Prestel, 2003.

Grainville, Patrick.
Le nu foudroyé.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2004.

Clergue, Lucien.
Portraits.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2005.

Clergue, Lucien.
Lucien Clergue, Fifty Years of Photography: Vintage and Recent Works.
West Hollywood, CA: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2005.

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