Marc Riboud
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Marc Riboud (24 June 1923 - )
Eminent French photographer Riboud was born in Lyon, France, where he attended school and while still a teenager in 1937 made his first of many noted pictures.
In 1943 to 1945, he fought against the Nazis with fellow civilians in the French Resistance, and from 1945 to 1948 he studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale. Employed until 1951 as an engineer in factories, he moved to Paris in 1952, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, the founders of Magnum Photos. In 1957 he was among the first European photographers to go to China, and he shot photos in North Vietnam in 1968, 1972, and 1976. He has photographed not only in Japan and the United States but also in Asia and Africa.
His anti-war pictures are celebrated internationally, one being taken 21 October 1967 in Washington, D.C., where in front of the Pentagon he shot Jan Rose Kasmir with a flower in her hands, a peaceful look on her face, confronted by rifle-wielding soldiers.
A portfolio of his 50 years of photographs includes over 150 views, a cross-section of human being and celebrities.
Unchurched, Riboud is a humanities humanist.
Exhibitions
- 1963 Marc Riboud (The Art Institute, Chicago)
- 1966 China (Institute of Contemporary Art, London)
- 1967 China (The Photographers Gallery, London)
- 1974 Marc Riboud (The Photographers Gallery, London)
- 1975 Nord Vietnam (Rote Fabrik, Zurich)
- 1975 Marc Riboud (International Centre of Photography, NY)
- 1977 Marc Riboud (Galerie Municipale, Toulouse)
- 1978 Marc Riboud (Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris)
- 1981 From China & Elsewhere (Gallery Photograph, NY)
- 1981 China (The Photographers Gallery, London)
- 1982 China (Galerie Photo, Geneva)
- 1984 Hommage a Marc Riboud (Centre d�action culturelle and �China� Galerie ACPA, Bordeaux)
- 1985 Retrospective (Musee d�Art moderne de la Ville, Paris)
- 1988 Marc Riboud (Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris)
- 1988 Marc Riboud (International Centre of Photography, NY)
- 1996 China, Travelling Exhibition (Centre National de Photographie, Paris - Barbican, London - International Centre of Photography, NY)
About
- Miller, Russell (1999). Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History. Grove Press.
- Morris, John and McNeill, William (2002). Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism. University of Chicago Press.
- Warren, Lynn (2006). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. CRC Publishing. pp. 1338�1340.
