Lucien Clergue's photography was intuitive right from the start and when he was hardly twenty.

In 1953, Lucien Clergue (1934-2014) was not yet twenty when, after leaving a bullfight in Arles, he presented his first photos to Pablo Picasso. This was the start of a friendship that lasted twenty years. Thanks to the photographer's albums, discovered after he died, we can understand the brilliance and dark poetry that so impressed Picasso and later Jean Cocteau.