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  Marc Riboud
It was at the age of 14 that Marc Riboud took his first photographs with his father's Vest Pocket Kodak.
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).
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.
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  Marc Riboud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marc Riboud is a French photographer born 1923 in Lyon.
He gave up a promising career as an engineer to become a freelance photographer.
Riboud was the only photojournalist allowed to enter North Vietnam and cover the Vietnam war from the North.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marc_Riboud   (102 words)

  
 French Culture | Books | Art | Marc Riboud: 50 Years of Photography (Flammarion 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Riboud's work in Paris, Marc Riboud: 50 Years of Photography is the first English language publication devoted to the career of one of the twentieth-century's most outstanding photojournalists.
When Riboud was a child, his father commented, "Marc, you're the first of my seven kids who's learned to have fun." Throughout the next seventy years and still today, Riboud claims to do just that - have fun looking at and concocting visual things that he finds beautiful.
Riboud suggests that his inspired childhood and a felicitous meeting with Henri-Cartier Bresson significantly influenced his life as a photographer.
www.frenchculture.org /books/release/art/cojeanriboud.html   (364 words)

  
 Travel Asia: Marc Riboud in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find.
He specializes in the juxtaposition of images, perhaps none are more jarring than his photograph of a poor man lugging a sack of belongings down a trash-littered back street while a pair of chubby-cheeked babies glance over his shoulder in a nearby poster and a porno actress bares her chest in an ad overhead.
Riboud's home is France, his territory is the world from Vietnam to Iran, but his heart and soul are apparently in the China he has covered from the days of Mao's revolution through the erosion of Communism to the country's modern economic upheaval.
www.orinoc.com /travel-asia/Marc-Riboud-in-China.html   (273 words)

  
 Book Review: Marc Riboud: Marc Riboud: 50 Years of Photography
Marc Riboud's 120 large-format retrospective fl-and-white collection offers an interesting look at the world of today, often juxtaposed with the same themes he captured earlier in his career.
Marc Riboud captures the older flower girl holding her widely published 1967 portrait during the recent peace protest.
Riboud's work is about human existence as it unfolds in front of his keen and compassionate eye.
www.aspp.com /bookreviews/reviews/2004_03/riboud.html   (759 words)

  
 Horvatland - Frank Horvat Photography: Entre Vues - Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud : I would say that when a photographer is not interested in the subject, he can easily fall into aestheticism.
Marc Riboud : I don't make them pretend to be anything but their own character, in their own environment.
Marc Riboud : I was struck by this sea of faces, all so well lined up - British fans were very disciplined at the time, they all wore ties and caps, no one would raise an arm.
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 Hackel Bury Fine Art - Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud was born in Lyon on 24th June 1923.
In 1943, Marc joined the Resistance and took part in the engagements fought by the Vercors marquis before winning a place at the Ecole Centrale in lyons to study engineering.
Marc Riboud has travelled extensively throughout his career.
www.hackelbury.co.uk /artists/riboud/riboud.html   (774 words)

  
 A Heroic Quest - March 31, 2005 - The New York Sun
Marc Riboud, the French photographer, had a house in Pontlevoy, and the friends were invited to a party to celebrate his 70th birthday.
Riboud: he was a student living at home in Lyons during the German occupation of France in the early 1940s.
Riboud and the priest made the identification, and noted that before the boy was shot, he had been tortured by having his heels burnt with an acetylene torch.
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 culturebase.net | The international artist database | Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud took his first photos at the age of 14 with a handy pocket camera which he then took with him for many years on his journeys.
Marc Riboud is a photographer whose works have appeared not only in newspapers and magazines but also round the world in museums and galleries, including the art gallery in the Barbican Centre in London, the ICP in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Marc Riboud und Jean Lacouture, Angkor: The Serenity of Buddhism Riboud: 11.
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Marc Riboud, one of the great names of Magnum, 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 his recent In China (1996).
Remarkable for their spontaneity and harmony, his Eastern documentaries are rich in encounters and portraits of citizens who pause long enough to give some account of themselves, while his color photography gives sweeping views of untouched nature and chaotic urban life.
Riboud served as president of Magnum from 1975-76.
www.magnumarchive.com /c/htm/TreePf_MAG.aspx?E=29YL53UWNTP&Det=T   (351 words)

  
 Marc Riboud
Riboud started his career as a photojournalist in the1950's and became a Magnum agency photographer in 1953.
Alongside mentors Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Riboud was encouraged and subsequently became the articulate and sensitive photographer he is today.
Riboud is a shy photographer who took refuge behind the camera in order to see without being seen.
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 UC Berkeley Journalism / Events / Riboud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The exhibit at the journalism school was a retrospective of Riboud’s work for Magnum, which spans more than 40 years of travel through China.
One of the first western photographers granted access after the Communist takeover, Riboud witnessed China’s dynamic transformation from a peasant society to a consumerist reflection of the west.
Riboud said his approach to photography is highly interpretive.
journalism.berkeley.edu /events/photoevents/riboud.html   (291 words)

  
 Marc Riboud : 50 Years of Photography
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.
www.markcarey.com /astore/p/208030447X   (276 words)

  
 Indelible Images - Flower Child   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
French photojournalist Marc Riboud noticed a lone girl posturing inches from the soldiers' sheathed bayonets.
Riboud crept close, snapping away in the soft, dying light of the late afternoon with the last of his film.
The key to the appeal of Riboud's seminal image may be Kasmir's empathy for her adversary.
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues04/apr04/indelible.html   (785 words)

  
 Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Riboud has long been associated with the illustrious MAGNUM Photos, Inc., having been mentored by two of the agency’s founders, famed photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa.
Riboud has been witness to numerous wars and was one of the first western photographers permitted to enter China after Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Born in 1923, Riboud was one of four sons of a Lyon-based banker.
www.artsmia.org /press/view.cfm?PR_ID=113   (0 words)

  
 Riboud Marc - new and used books
Marc Riboud's unusual access to China, beginning in 1956, has made him one of the most valuable visual commentators on the development of Communist Chinese culture and history.
This beautiful retrospective monograph, and the ICP travelling exhibition it accompanies, are both a testament to Riboud's eye and the project of photojournalism itself.
Riboud’s photographs have appeared in major European and American magazines, and have been exibited in New York, London, and Paris.
www.isbn.pl /A-riboud-marc   (936 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Marc Riboud in China: Books: Marc Riboud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find.
He specializes in the juxtaposition of images, perhaps none are more jarring than his photograph of a poor man lugging a sack of belongings down a trash-littered back street while a pair of chubby-cheeked babies glance over his shoulder in a nearby poster and a porno actress bares her chest in an ad overhead.
Riboud's home is France, his territory is the world from Vietnam to Iran, but his heart and soul are apparently in the China he has covered from the days of Mao's revolution through the erosion of Communism to the country's modern economic upheaval.
www.amazon.com /Marc-Riboud-China/dp/0810944308   (0 words)

  
 CARE - Explore Art ~ Beijing
Marc Riboud is a member of Magnum, which is a group of well-known outstanding photojournalists.
Riboud’s photograph, Beijing, is part of a well-known series of images he made of China during his visits beginning in 1957.
Riboud has arranged the photograph so that we look through different windows onto a street scene with people and buildings in Beijing.
www.carearts.org /families/beijing.html   (0 words)

  
 Marc Riboud at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Jim Kigin — photos, photo opening, photography | Gather
If you are lucky enough to be in the Twin Cities in the near future, you won't want to miss Marc Riboud's exhibit: Photographing the World, 1953-2005, being held at Harrison Photography Gallery between March 11, 2006 through May 14, 2006.
Marc Riboud, one of the last greatest living French photographers, was a photojournalist associated with MAGNUM Photos, Inc., from 1951 to 1979.
I am fortunate to have met Marc on several occasions and particularly enjoyed the retrospective that was dedicated to him last autumn here in Paris at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie: Marc Riboud "50 years of photography".
www.gather.com /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976734651   (0 words)

  
 France 5 : Dossiers - Photo (Interview : Marc Riboud)
Membre de l'agence Magnum depuis 1959, Marc Riboud a sillonné la planète au gré de l'actualité ou de son instinct.
Marc Riboud : Au soir d'une longue marche, la fatigue venant, je suis gagné par le doute et le sentiment du dérisoire quand soudain...
Une sélection parmi les photographies de Marc Riboud, prises durant un demi siècle, qui accompagne la très belle rétrospective (de mars à octobre 2004) proposée par la Maison européenne de la photographie à Paris.
www.france5.fr /arts_culture/W00122/37/115259.cfm   (0 words)

  
 Marc Riboud: The World, His Lens - Duncan Miller Gallery - absolutearts.com
Riboud, a renowned original member of the famed photojournalism agency Magnum, has photographed throughout the world.
Known for his strong and graphic compositions, a sense of compassion for the human spirit is also present in Marc Riboud images.
Riboud’s images have appeared in Life, National Geographic, Paris-Match, and Der Stern.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2006/03/01/33731.html   (0 words)

  
 Marc Riboud - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Marc Riboud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marc Riboud - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Marc Riboud.
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 Eyestorm : Artist : Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud was given his first camera as a 13-year-old boy in 1936.
He has twice won the Overseas Press Club Award (1967 and 1971), and has exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the International Center of Photography and Metropolitan Museum in New…
He has twice won the Overseas Press Club Award (1967 and 1971), and has exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the International Center of Photography and Metropolitan Museum in New York.
www.eyestorm.com /artists/profile/Marc_Riboud_biography.html   (0 words)

  
 Chronologie - 1997 - Marc RIBOUD: Forty Years of Photography in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
[ The work of renowned French photographer Marc Riboud shows us China over the past four decades in images that progress from the revolutionary era to the cultural revolution and the current mirroring of the capitalist West.
Riboud's elegantly composed photographs capture workers, students, and farmers engaged in everyday activities.
The exhibition will be on view at ICP during the crucial moment in China's history when Hong Kong ceases to be a British colony and returns to Chinese possession.
art-contemporain.eu.org /base/chronologie/2003.html   (120 words)

  
 Marc Riboud In China: Forty Years Of Photography (English); Author: Daniel, Jean; Author: Translator Sharman, Ruth; ...
Marc Riboud In China: Forty Years Of Photography (English); Author: Daniel, Jean; Author: Translator Sharman, Ruth; Hardback; Book
In 1956 Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China since the Communist takeover of 1949--and he was permitted to return regularly over the next four decades.
This book presents his compelling record of the far-reaching and rapid changes that have taken place as China has evolved through the revolutionary era into a puritanical tyranny, and finally into a mirror of the capitalist West.
www.netstoreusa.com /babooks/081/0810944308.shtml   (239 words)

  
 Marc Riboud in China : Books : Thames & Hudson
Marc Riboud joined Magnum in 1955, travelling to the Far East and sending his first picture report on China in 1957.
Since then he has visited the country many times, observing and recording the changes that have taken place, seeing Mao's revolution erode until in many respects China has become a mirror of the capitalist West.
The contrast between these two worlds can often be caught more vividly in a single image or pair of images than in analytical prose, and Riboud shows a uncanny instinct for choosing such images.
www.thamesandhudson.com /en/1/0500542058.mxs   (109 words)

  
 moleskinerie: Marc Riboud
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This fateful seven day excursion of picture-taking ignited a wanderlust & he consequently never returned to the factory that confined him.
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www.moleskinerie.com /2004/06/marc_riboud.html   (252 words)

  
 Marc Riboud in China by Marc Riboud - The Travel Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marc Riboud in China by Marc Riboud - The Travel Bookstore
Product Description: Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find.
This is not just a great photographic book but also a record of new China history.
www.thetravelbookstore.com /r-16772/m-Books/b-16785/a-0810944308/Default.aspx   (236 words)

  
 Marc Riboud in China
It was a major feat when, in December 1956, Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China after the Communist takeover of 1949.
A member of the famed Magnum photo agency, Riboud was permitted to return to China at regular intervals over the next four decades, observing and recording the enormous changes that have taken place.
French journalist Jean Daniel provides a thoughtful introduction and Riboud himself comments on each photograph, explaining the time, the place, and the circumstance.
www.globecorner.com /t/t37/18575.php   (194 words)

  
 Marc Riboud artist and art...the-artists.org
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...
Information on the life, background and work of Marc Riboud
Personal data and representives, education, signature, exhibition history, auction results and upcoming auctions of Marc Riboud.
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