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Marc Riboud (born 1923, † 30. August 2016)
It was at the age of 14 that Marc Riboud took his first photographs with his father's Vest Pocket Kodak. The camera proved to be a lifelong license to roam, investigate, analyze and appreciate our multi-faceted world. An engineer by training and trade, Marc Riboud, at an early juncture in his career, took a week off from work for the exclusive purpose of taking pictures. This fateful seven day excursion of picture-taking ignited a wanderlust & he consequently never returned to the factory that confined him.
Everything Riboud was to learn about the job of photographing came from the famed Magnum crew, comprised of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Chim (David Seymour). He met the troupe in 1951 and was taken under the wing of Cartier-Bresson, who emphasized in his teachings the intricacies and make-up of composition. (Oddly, it is learned that, Cartier-Bresson "forbade" Riboud to leave his engineering position at the factory for the sake of Photography.) In 1953, Riboud became an official member of the Magnum Agency and eventually become one of its officers.
Marc Riboud has been witness to the atrocities of war (photographing from both the Vietnam and the American sides of the Vietnam War), and the apparent degradation of a culture repressed from within (China during the years of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution). In contrast, he has captured the graces of daily life, set in sun-drenched facets of the globe (Fès, Angkor, Acapulco, Niger, Bénarès, Shaanxi), and the lyricism of child's play in everyday Paris. A man of the world with the eye of a poet, Marc Riboud's photographs are a vignette of the lives of many; brushing against the souls of culture.
biography:
1923 born in Lyons, France.
1937 first photography
1945-48 study of engineering
1952 in the photo-agency Magnum
Since 1955 journeys through Africa, Asia and the East Bloc
1975-76 vice-president of Magnum
1979 left Magnum
† 30. August 2016
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2018
in focus Galerie, Colgone, D, Marc Riboud & Willy Ronis - France 1935 - 1985
2017
« Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
« Cuba, 1963 Brownstone Foundation, Paris
« China, Photo Shanghai
« Hommage at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
2015
« Alaska, Chanel Nexus Hall and Kyotographie
2014-15
« Premier declics, Le Plateau, Lyon
« Witness at a Crossroads Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2014
« in focus Gallery, Cologne - China & Japan
Publications:
- 1959, Marc Riboud, Women of Japan, Bruna et Zoon, Utrecht, London
- 1964, Marc Riboud, Le Bon Usage du monde, text by Claude Roy,Recontre
- 1970, Marc Riboud, Faces of North Vietnam, text by Philippe Devillers, Holt Rinehart and Marc
Riboud, Winston, New York
- 1972, Marc Riboud, Bangkok, Weatherhill, New York
- 1985, Marc Riboud, photos choisies ,1953-1985, texts by Francoise Marquet, Jean Lacouture, Anne Philippe
and Marc Riboud, Museé d´art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- 1986, Marc Riboud, Journal, text by Claude Roy, Paris
- 1989, Photo Poche 37, Marc Riboud, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
- 1992, Le Grand Louvre du donjon à la pyramide, texts by Jean Lacouture, Jean
Boisselier, Marc Riboud and Madeleine Giteau, Imprimerie Nationale Editions, Paris
- 1993, Angkor, the Serenity of Buddhism, texts by Jean Lacouture, Jean Boisselier, Marc
Riboud and Madeleine Giteau, Thames and Hudson, London
- 1997, Marc Riboud In China, Harry N. Abrams, New York
- 2004, Marc Riboud, 50 Years of Photography , texts by Robert Delpire, Annick Cojean
and Marc Riboud, Flammarion, Paris
- 2005, Marc Riboud, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
- 2009, Marc Riboud, Tibet
- 2010, Marc Riboud + Catherine Chaine: I comme Image, France
- 2012, Marc Riboud: Into the Orient, 5 Volumes, Xavier Barral, France