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LUCIEN CLERGUE MODERN MASTER OF THE NUDE |
In 1961, America’s premiere photographer, Edward Steichen, offered a very young Lucien Clergue his first one-man show in America Ñ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was an auspicious beginning for a man whose curriculum vitae reads like that of four accomplished 80-year olds. Today, at age 65, Clergue has behind him: 100 one-man exhibitions held the world over; participation in 100 group shows; and places in the permanent collections of 60 museums and galleries worldwide. He has had 59 books of his own work published, and has had 20 limited-edition portfolios of his work published. Clergue has been an instructor and guest lecturer in dozens of universities all across America and Europe. He has produced 18 short films and 4 television specials, has been nominated for an Academy Award, was awarded the Prix Louis Lumiere, received the Chevalier de LÕOrdre National du Merite, and created the internationally acclaimed photographic conference held each summer in Arles, his hometown. This is his first appearance in Memphis. Although Clergue employs many different kinds of subject matter in his imagery Ñ from the bullfights to the landscape to Pablo Picasso Ñ it is as a photographer of the nude that he is best known. His work in this area can be divided into three major series: the nude in the sea, in the forest, and in city buildings. |
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