Author francois-hebel

In 1981, Raymond Depardon’s La correspondance New-Yorkaise was published every day for one month in the Libération newspaper in France, signifying a rebound for French photography.…

Visitors are first struck by the meteoric progression of Lucien Clergue’s work, within just a few years, from melancholy lyricism to nudes radiating vital energy. All of his projects are…

In part of this second season of French Protocol, the FIAF Gallery (French Institute : Alliance Française) presents until June 4, a solo show by French photographer Patrick Swirc. François…

De quel animal ce photographe tient il ? Il voit mieux la nuit, ou entre chien et loup, à la limite un ciel orageux peut lui convenir. Luca Campigotto semble…

Lucien Clergue (1934–2014) was not yet twenty in 1953 when, after a bullfight in Arles, he presented his first photographs to Pablo Picasso. This marked the beginning of a twenty-year-long…

Lucien Clergue’s mother, who had raised him on her own, dreamed he would become an artist. When she fell ill, he spent every day at her bedside until her death.…

Lucien Clergue’s photography was intuitive from the start and, at the age of just twenty, he enjoyed the benefit of decisive support and advice from the mentors he chose for…