Picasso/Clergue Picasso This project is the result

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

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Texts by Kingston TrinderEssays by Sonia Haoa-Cardinali and Atholl AndersonEpilogue by Sylvia EarleProduced in collaboration with the Kon-Tiki Museum

Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer based in Amsterdam who works in both the fashion and fine art worlds

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

Picasso/Clergue Picasso This project is the resultA 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