The photocollages of Lucien Clergue

The photocollages of Lucien Clergue are infused with cultural catholicism and flavours of southern Europe: the sacred mixed with the profane against a backdrop of art history quotations and a dash of bullfighting iconography. Truly stunning.

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September 12, 2003 | 05:10 PM
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Verrrrrr-ry interesting. Ten minutes ago, I began a cursory search for images by Lucien Clergue. I hoped to find a few nudes that I'd seen a year ago, but I soon realized that Clergue had not photographed them.

Accepting that I was going in the wrong direction, I typed "indie nudes" because of a notion that I had found these images through that site.

Because I was still using Google's image search, there were only two hits: One for a Seattle protester behind a riot cop (on your site) and one from the Sensual Liberation Army (which I had thought to check first, but balked).

As I scrolled down the page to which Google pointed, what did I find? Photomontage work by Lucien Clergue. Still not what I was looking for, but it was quite arresting. Since the network seems to be reading my mind, why can't it just show me what my mind's eye sees?

Posted by: My name is Damon at March 3, 2004 11:00 PM