Marc Riboud

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Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud in 1975
Born(1923-06-24)24 June 1923
Saint-Genis-Laval, France
Died30 August 2016(2016-08-30) (aged 93)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole centrale de Lyon
OccupationPhotographer
SpouseBarbara Chase-Riboud (1961–1981; divorced)
Children2
AwardsLucie Award (2006)
Sony World Photography Awards (2009)
Prix Nadar (2012)
Websitewww.marcriboud.com

Marc Riboud (French: [ʁibu]; 24 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the Far East: The Three Banners of China, Face of North Vietnam, Visions of China, and In China.

Early life and education

Riboud was born in

École Centrale de Lyon
from 1945 to 1948.

Career

Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer.[1] He moved to Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour, the founders of Magnum Photos. By 1953 he was a member of the organization. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come.

Over the next several decades, Riboud traveled around the world. In 1957, he was one of the first European photographers to go to China, and in 1968, 1972, and 1976, Riboud made several

Bénarès
, Shaanxi), and the lyricism of child's play in everyday Paris. In 1979 Riboud left the Magnum agency.

Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the International Center of Photography
in New York.

Riboud was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1998.[2]

Photography

One of Riboud's best known images is Eiffel Tower Painter, taken in Paris in 1953. It depicts a man painting the tower, posed like a dancer, perched between the metal armature of the tower. Below him, Paris emerges from the photographic haze. Lone figures appear frequently in Riboud's images. In Ankara, a central figure is silhouetted against an industrial background, whereas in France, a man lies in a field. The vertical composition emphasizes the landscape, the trees, sky, water and blowing grass, all of which surround but do not overpower the human element.

An image taken by Riboud on 21 October 1967, entitled "

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet," is among the most celebrated anti-war pictures. Shot in Washington, D.C. where thousands of anti-war activists had gathered in front of the Pentagon to protest against America's involvement in Vietnam, the picture shows a young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, with a flower in her hands and a kindly gaze in her eyes, standing in front of several rifle-wielding soldiers stationed to block the protesters. Riboud said of the photo, "She was just talking, trying to catch the eye of the soldiers, maybe trying to have a dialogue with them. I had the feeling the soldiers were more afraid of her than she was of the bayonets."[3][4]

In contrast to the images in his photo essay, A Journey to North Vietnam (1969), Riboud says in the accompanying interview: "My impression is that the country's leaders will not allow the slightest relaxation of the population at large [...] it is almost as if [...] they are anxious to forestall the great unknown – peace."[5] In the same Newsweek article, he expanded further in his observations on life in North Vietnam:

I was astonished, for example, at the decidedly gay atmosphere in Hanoi's Reunification Park on a Sunday afternoon [...] I honestly did not have the impression they were discussing socialism or the 'American aggressors' [...] I saw quite a few patriotic posters crudely 'improved' with erotic graffiti and sketches.[5]

There is a divide between what is photographed (or published) and what Riboud had to say by way of his interview. Commenting on this in 1970, the author Geoffrey Wolff wrote:

Riboud's photographs illustrate the proposition. The French photographer has been to North Vietnam twice [...] and he is most friendly, on the evidence of his pictures, to the people and the institutions he found there. His photographs are of happy faces,[...] An Air Force ace illustrates how he shot the American "air pirates" from the sky [...] Who knows the truth about these places?[6]

American, revolutionary political

Rap Metal band, Rage Against the Machine used two of Riboud's photographs for their second single "Bullet in the Head". Both photographs carry strong political and social messages, but are very different. The front cover is a picture of American school children pledging allegiance to the 'flag' (Stars and Stripes) in a classroom; the back cover picture, is of a young (probably Vietnamese) boy, who is pointing a pistol, while soldiers stand on parade in the background.[7]
It is unclear who or what the boy is aiming at and whether the gun is real or a toy.

Marriage and family

In 1961 Riboud married the American sculptor Barbara Chase, who was living in Paris.[8] They had two children.[8] She became well known for her novel, Sally Hemings (1979), which earned critical acclaim and became a bestseller. They divorced before 1981.

He later married Catherine Chaine, a journalist and author.

Riboud died in Paris on 30 August 2016, at the age of 93.[9][10]

Publications

Exhibitions

  • 1958 Photographs From The Museum Collection (Museum of Modern Art, New York)[11]
  • 1959 30th Anniversary Special Installation – Towards the "New" Museum (Museum of Modern Art, New York)[12]
  • 1960 Photographs for Collectors (Museum of Modern Art, New York)[13]
  • 1963 Marc Riboud (The Art Institute, Chicago)
  • 1964 Edward Steichen Photography Center (Museum of Modern Art, New York)[14]
  • 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 Against the Odds by Marc Riboud (International Center of Photography, NY)[15]
  • 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 à Marc Riboud (Centre d'action culturelle and 'China' Galerie ACPA, Bordeaux)
  • 1985 Rétrospective (Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville, Paris)
  • 1988 Marc Riboud (Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris)
  • 1988 Marc Riboud (International Center of Photography, NY)
  • 1996 China, Travelling Exhibition (Centre National de Photographie, Paris – Barbican, London – International Center of Photography, NY)
  • 2004 Rétrospective (Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris)
  • 2008 Les Inédits de Marc Riboud (Atelier Publimod, Paris)
  • 2008 Home on the Road (Howard Greenburg, New York)[16]
  • 2009 Marc Riboud. L'Instinct de l'instant. 50 Years of Photography (Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris)
  • 2009 China 1954–2004 (Month of Photography Asia, Singapore)
  • 2010 Krishna Riboud's Garden (Musée des Arts asiatiques—Guimet, Paris)
  • 2014 Portraits of the 20th Century (Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica)[17]
  • 2015 Marc Riboud (Salon Galic Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Croatia)[18]
  • 2018 The World of Marc Riboud (Leica Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo)[19]

References

  1. ^ SK Josefburg Studio biography Archived 7 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Honorary Fellowships (HonFRPS)". Royal Photographic Society. Archived from the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Marc Riboud 1967" Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Magnum Festival '07: 60 Years. Retrieved 14 November 2011
  4. ^ Deccan Herald Archived 4 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, 30 November 2008
  5. ^ a b Newsweek, 20 October 1969: 35
  6. ^ Newsweek, December 7, 1970
  7. ^ ""Bullet in the Head" at". discogs. 7 February 1993. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  8. ^ a b Smith, Jessie C. 1991. "Barbara Chase Riboud," in Notable Black American Women, p. 178.(Gale Cengage)
  9. ^ "Marc Riboud, Photojournalist Who Found Grace in the Turbulent, Dies at 93". The New York Times. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  10. ^ "In Memoriam: Marc Riboud, 1923 – 2016". Magnum Photos. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Photographs From The Museum Collection". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  12. ^ "30th Anniversary Special Installation – Towards the "New" Museum". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Photographs for Collectors". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  14. ^ "Edward Steichen Photography Center". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  15. ^ "TURBULENT DECADESAgainst the Odds, Photographs by Marc Riboud". International Center of Photography. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  16. ^ "MARC RIBOUD: HOME ON THE ROAD". Howard Greenburg Gallery. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  17. ^ "Portraits of the 20th Century". Peter Fetterman Gallery. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Marc Riboud Exhibition in Salon Galic". Total Croatia News. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Simultaneous exhibitions at Leica Gallery Tokyo and Leica Gallery Kyoto". Leica Camera. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

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