Regards Noirs, Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta : the trailer.

On the occasion of the Grand Palais exhibition, it seemed interesting to show a large selection of pictures created by Lucien Clergue in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Lucien Clergue and the nudes...

Among the many sources of inspiration of Lucien Clergue , the Gypsy community.

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

Lucien Clergue : the man of the Rencontres

Brilliance. This is what is revealed in the seven albums of contact sheets, that were forgotten and then rediscovered in Lucien Clergue's studio after his death.

In the workshop with Anne Clergue

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.