Marc
Riboud
Présentation
de l'éditeur
For the past fifty years, Marc Riboud has traveled the world recording
the harmony of landscapes and the beauty in faces in Angkor, Huang-Shan,
Vietnam, Istanbul, India, Bangladesh, New York and China. Riboud captures
images of history in the making alongside those of everyday life. From
a painter balanced like a dancer on the metal girders of the Eiffel
Tower to a young girl facing down a rank of riflemen in protest of the
Vietnam war, Riboud's photographs reveal a deep passion for seeing,
an intrinsic compassion for the human struggle, and an intense and insatiable
desire to understand and to comprehend. While many of his photographs
depict the anguish of war, others catch the evanescent delight of a
swim in a sun-dappled river or children learning to whistle in a Shanghai
street. This retrospective book-which includes Riboud's most famous
photographs as well as unpublished vintage prints from Leeds in 1954,
from Africa, and from Europe-is the first to span his entire, remarkable
career.
Book
Description
Surprises of every kind lie in wait for the photographer - they open
the eyes and quicken the heartbeat of those with a passion for looking.
Published
to coincide with a major retrospective of Marc Riboud's work, this is
the first work in English devoted to the entire career of this outstanding
twentieth-century photojournalist. Riboud has created some of the iconic
images of our time: workmen balanced like dancers on the powerful metal
girders of the Eiffel Tower; a young Vietnam war protester facing down
a rank of riflemen with a flower in her hand.
Riboud
took his first photographs at the age of 14 with his father's Vest Pocket
Kodak. Eager to investigate the complexities of contemporary reality,
Riboud worked for the legendary Magnum agency, alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Robert Capa, and Chim (David Seymour). Starting in 1955, he traveled
all over the world, from Nepal to Alaska, Mexico to Algeria, his camera
always at the ready. While many of his shots reveal the anguish of war,
others capture the fleeting delights of a swim in a sun-dappled river
or children learning to whistle in a Shanghai street. Here are Riboud's
best images, presented by those who know him.
Biographie de l'auteur
Born in 1923, Marc Riboud, an engineer by training, has devoted the
past fifty years of his life to photography. At the age of thirteen,
Riboud's father gave him his own World War I Vest Pocket Kodak, the
aged and dented camera that Riboud used to take his very first photographs.
Riboud's fortuitous meeting in 1952 with Henri Cartier-Bresson, the
man who was later to become his "salutary tyrant" and mentor,
led to his membership in the
legendary Magnum agency. He has received several awards in both the
U.S. and Europe, and his photographs are some of the most iconic images
of our time. Marc Riboud has been the subject of
numerous individual and collective exhibitions in New York, Paris, and
Japan. This book was published to coincide with a major retrospective
of Riboud's fifty years of photography held at the Maison Européenne
de la Photographie in Paris
from March to October 2004.