Picasso/Clergue Picasso Between the publication of Robert

Between the publication of Robert Frank The Americans (1958) and the coming of post-modernism

This project is the result of a unique fusion between photographer Viviane Sassen and philosopher Emanuele Coccia

Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum’s extensive Heyerdahl archive

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Picasso/Clergue Picasso Between the publication of RobertA three decade friendship chronicling Picassos postwar years On April 5, 1953, the French photographer Lucien Clergue (19342014) met Pablo Picasso (18811973) at a bullfight in Arles. Clergue shot several portraits of the artist and showed him some of his Polaroid pictures. Two years later they met again in La Californie, the artist's house in Cannes, and a friendship was cemented that lasted until Picasso's death in 1973. In those years, they met on