Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Lucien Clergue: Fifty Years of Photography - Vintage and Recent Works, an extensive retrospective of the work and career of renowned French photographer Lucien Clergue. Lucien Clergue traveled to the US in October to receive the prestigious Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Photography. Now he returns to California in January for the installation of his first major exhibition in the states.

The exhibition will highlight Clergue’s meticulous use and developement of the photographic medium as an art form. Throughout his career, Clergue followed his own particular muse, remaining a steadfastly independent (not commercial) eye and an artist’s artist.

His wide-ranging associations with an international community of artists took him from movie sets (Jean Cocteau was his first employer) to publishing houses (he created imagery for the poetry of Frederico Garcia Lorca) and artist’s studios (his portraits of Picasso are internationally renowned). His elegant, sensual and deeply humane images helped re-define how we saw the world in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.

The exhibition opens January 14, with a reception for the artist and continues through May 6, 2006.

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