In 2014, Lucien Clergue left us while the museum dedicated a major retrospective to him. Ten years later, and throughout 2024, a program of feature exhibitions pays tribute to him, highlighting different aspects of his prolific photographic work.
After a focus on photographs from the filming of the film The Testament of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau from 1959, and an unprecedented dialogue between his photographs and the permanent collections, the museum invites you to look at the work of Lucien Clergue with a different eye: that of the public!
Around twenty personalities, Arlesians by birth or by affiliation, from the world of culture or commerce, artists or craftsmen, agreed to answer a simple question: if you had to retain only one image in the work by Lucien Clergue, which one would it be? The participants each chose a photograph and expressed, in their own words, the reasons why it resonates with their personal experiences, their memories and their artistic tastes.
With the participation of the Lucien Clergue workshop