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\u2026And I know not which cock in Arles that gives to Clergue
\nThe order to bury the pearl of its eye.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean Cocteau, Black Homage, 1958<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Picasso, whom I had met in 1953, recommended me to the poet. There followed a rather discouraging exchange of letters, and then I sent my photos of gypsies \u2013 which bowled him over, to such an extent that he tirelessly drew inspiration from them to complete the frescoes of the Saint Pierre Chapel at Villefranche-sur-Mer, and also for some compositions at the city hall at Menton, and for the Menton Music Festival poster.<\/em>
\nI couldn\u2019t help but be enormously proud.<\/em>
\nI carefully preserved over a hundred letters and telegrams from our correspondence, published by Actes Sud*, and had the privilege of featuring in the \u00c9ditions de La Pl\u00e9iade, where the poems Cocteau had written about me were published.<\/em>
\nWhen at last he was able to make his film, The Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau asked me to join his team, giving two reasons: to be a freelance photographer \u2013 I had carte blanche to do whatever I wanted \u2013 and to assist in the gypsy sequences, for which I recruited my neighbours from the Roquette quarter, in Arles.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucien Clergue, 15\u00a0February 2011, Arles<\/strong><\/p>\n

* The correspondence between the poet and the artist was published by Actes Sud in 1989. Full of poems and drawings, it retraces the friendship between the two men, from its beginning in 1955 until Cocteau\u2019s death in 1963.
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