Directing
Lucien Clergue
Born — Died
1934-08-14 — 2014-11-15
Place of birth
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known for
Directing
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11 titles
Lucien Clergue (14 August 1934 – 15 November 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year a…
Known for
8.0Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
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Michel Tournier
1983
This short uses a text by the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca to document the tragic fate of an animal in the cruel arena sport of bullfighting.
Le drame du taureau
1966
Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin.
Dans Arles où sont les Alyscamps
1966
Abstract portrait of a lighthouse and its lenses, set to Beethoven's Grand Fugue.
Lighthouse
1967
A seventeen-year-old Spanish bullfighter needs to win to ensure his future career.
Linares
1966
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Behind the camera
This short uses a text by the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca to document the tragic fate of an animal in the cruel arena sport of bullfighting.
Le drame du taureau
1966
Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin.
Dans Arles où sont les Alyscamps
1966
Abstract portrait of a lighthouse and its lenses, set to Beethoven's Grand Fugue.
Lighthouse
1967
A seventeen-year-old Spanish bullfighter needs to win to ensure his future career.
Linares
1966
Lucien Clergue observes the formation of salt in a crust or in a filament on the surface of the water and follows the slightest movements, the slightest shudders of the Camargue marshes.
Delta de sel
1968
NRSand, wind, water and sun ballet on the beaches of Camargue.
Sables
1969
One summer in Var, fires ravaged the pine forests. Lucien Clergue wanted to capture the beauty and the sadness of these forests and these charred trees.
La forêt calcinée
1971
Camargue, south of France. In the middle of the swamps, birds and bulls are the only inhabitants in one of the last surviving wildernesses in France.
On the Road to Camardie
1971
A documentary about the painter Mario Prassinos. Taking his inspiration from nature, particularly in the Alpilles region, this artist’s approach is to capture the hostility of that world and convey it on his canvases.
Mario Prassinos
1968