{"id":1445,"date":"2018-05-07T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/new-york-memories\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:49:40","slug":"new-york-memories","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/en\/new-york-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 Edward Steichen discovered the work of Lucien Clergue in Zurich\u2019s Kunstgewerbe Museum, where the young photographer had his first exhibition, coinciding with the legendary <em>\u201cFamily of Man\u201d<\/em> exhibition created by Steichen. Steichen bought nine photographs from Clergue for the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art where he was Director of Photography. In May 1961, Steichen wrote a letter to Clergue, asking him to participate in an exhibition at the MoMA in September-October of the same year. He asked him to send 150 to 200 prints in order to make his choice. Sixty-six of Lucien Clergue\u2019s images were exhibited alongside those of the famous English photographer Bill Brandt, and the American Yasuhiro Ishimoto, in this exhibition, which toured several cities of the United States. It is thanks to the generosity of a Swiss benefactor that Clergue was able to make this journey which was to transform his life forever, not only on professional and sentimental levels but which was also to change the course of the history of photography in France\u2026 It was Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso who wrote the cheque so that Yolande, who later became his wife, could accompany him, and it was the discovery of Picasso\u2019s Guernica, placed beside a permanent collection of photography, which inspired him just two years later, with the help of Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Curator of Arles Museums, to create France\u2019s first photography department at the R\u00e9attu Museum of Arles.<\/p>\n<h2>Footprints of the Gods<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cThe New York sojourn was a time of incredible meetings with Eugene Smith and Robert Frank\u2026 Andr\u00e9 Kertesz and Alexey Brodovitch\u2026 While setting up this network, he travelled throughout the United States, progressively acquiring a visual experience that formed part of his photographic creation\u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Through his friendship with Ansel Adams, Lucien Clergue became part of the photographic history of the magnificent landscapes of American national parks\u2026 Through the canyons and cliffs of Yosemite, Lucien Clergue roamed with the same eyes that uncovered the Camargue in Language of the Sands. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2026a universe of petrified analogies: animal forms and anthropomorphic masks, lips, buttocks\u2026in the series Footprints of the Gods.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Using the same close-up technique, he photographs the road \u2014 another recurring subject in the Northern American psyche. The series of the highway in El Paso\u2026constitutes close-ups of road markings and ideogrammes formed by spilled tar on asphalt. \u2026they seem to present an enigmatic alphabet with a purely visual message. These themes, wide-open spaces and the road, are, strictly speaking, Lucien Clergue\u2019s contribution to American photography. He manages, by imposing his own vision, to upset the codes through which America was in the habit of perceiving their world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Robert Pujade, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 Edward Steichen discovered the work of Lucien Clergue in Zurich\u2019s Kunstgewerbe Museum, where the young photographer had his first exhibition, coinciding with the legendary \u201cFamily of Man\u201d exhibition created by Steichen. 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