Tag: Lucien Clergue
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02 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Lucien Clergue’s Les Geàntes, with Footnotes, #14
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 — November 15, 2014) was a French photographer.…
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04 works, The Art Of The Nude, Lucien Clergue’s Mermaids, with footnotes # 22
Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 – November 15, 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. 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.…