Marc Riboud
Overview
One of the great names of Magnum, Marc Riboud is best known for his extensive reports on the East: The Three Banners of China (1966), Face of North Vietnam (1970), Visions of China (1981) and In China (1996). After being active in the French Resistance and studying engineering, Riboud started as a freelance photographer and moved to Paris in 1952, where he was invited by Cartier-Bresson and Capa to join Magnum as an associate. He became a full member in 1955 and served as president of Magnum (1975-76). Riboud’s photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including Life, Géo, National Geographic, Paris-Match, Stern. He won the Overseas Press Club Award twice (1966 and 1970), and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1985), International Center of Photography, New York (1988 and 1997) and Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris (2009).
Featured Exhibitions
Windows of an antique dealers shop, Liulichang, Beijing, 1965
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
The Eiffel Tower Painter, Paris, 1953
Gelatin silver print mounted to aluminium
71 x 48 inches
Edition of 3
The Eiffel Tower Painter, Paris, 1953
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 7 x 9.5 inches
London, 1954
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
‘Dangerous Fence’, London, 1954
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
On the Great Wall, near Beijing, 1971
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 7 x 10.25 inches
Peasant woman on the train, 1957
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 8.75 x 12 inches
Docker’s strike in London, 1954
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
Nun in front of Notre-Dame, Paris, 1953
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
Lovers of the Pont Des Arts, Paris, 1953
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size 12 x 16 inches
Young girl holding a flower, demonstration against the war in Vietnam, Washington, 1967
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches
The Canteen of a steel factory, Anshan, 1957
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 9.5 x 12 inches
Forbidden City Under the Snow, Beijing, 1957
Gelatin silver archive print
Paper size: 12 x 16 inches