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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

Solo Exhibitions:
- 2010 "Marc Riboud- retrospective" - Nordic Light Event, Fotofestival Kristiansund, Norway, by in focus Galerie, Köln
- 2009 "Marc Riboud" in focus Galerie, Köln, Deutschland
- 2005 "Marc Riboud", Galerie Arcturus, Paris, France
"Gazes", The Gallery at Hermes, New York, USA
"Leeds 1954-2004", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"50 années de photographie en Chine", La Galerie Photo -
Galerie Municipale de Photographie, Montpellier, France
- 2004 "Marc Riboud - 50 Years of Photography", Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France "Photos choisies. 1953 - 2002", Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
"50 ans de photographie", MEP - Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
"Marc Riboud", HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London, Great Britain
"Istanbul, 1950-2000", Fnac Ternes, Paris, France
- 2002 "Marc Riboud - Huan Shan - Photographies 1989", Galerie de France, Paris, France
- 2001 Leica Gallery, New York, USA 1997 "40 Years of Photography in China"
The Barbican Gallery, London, Great Britain
- 1996 "China", Centre National de Photographie, Paris, France
- 1988 "Marc Riboud", Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France "Lasting Moments"
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
- 1985 "Retrospective", Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville, Paris, France
- 1984 "China", Galerie ACPA, Bordeaux, France
"Images de Villeurbanne", Villeurbanne, France
- 1982 "China", Galerie Photo, Geneva, Switzerland 1981
"From China & Elsewhere", Gallery Photograph, New York, USA
"China", The Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
- 1978 "Marc Riboud", Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
- 1977 "Marc Riboud", Galerie Municipale, Toulouse, France
- 1975 "Nord Vietnam", Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
"Marc Riboud", International Centre of Photography, New York, USA 1974
"Marc Riboud", The Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
- 1967 "China", The Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
- 1966 "China", Asia House, New York, USA "China", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain -
- 1963 "Marc Riboud", The Art Institute, Chicago, USA