Signs of Gods and Goddesses
While it would be wrong to deny that Weston's artistic technique has influenced Clergue's, Weston's denial of transcendent categories such as the "natural, the perfected or the beautiful" may be identified as the point where Weston and Clergue come into disagreement. For as Clergue explains his work at Point Lobos was precisely "to get back to origins ... those signs left by gods and goddesses." Clergue writes of what he found at Point Lobos:

And the questions remain for all eternity: why, why, why? Why are there two sexes, man and woman? Why is there a bestiary, making you think of Hieronymus Bosch? Why this dream of nature? Why death, suddenly all around you? Why? Why? Why?

Lucien Clergue
UCRiverside Museum of Photography

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