CLERGUE, Lucien and Paul Eluard

Corps Mémorable

Paris: Pierre Seghers (1962). Second edition published in 1962. Tall octavo. First book by French photographer Lucien Clergue, with twelve of his trademark close-up images of wet nudes. Dust jacket for the book executed by Clergue's mentor, Pablo Picasso, who called Clergue "the Monet of the camera." With text by poet Paul Eluard. A fine association copy, INSCRIBED by Clergue on a full page to photographer Arnold Crane in 1975. Fine in a fine jacket (and possible original publisher's acetate). Clergue's scarcest trade publication.