Marc Riboud

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Marc Riboud, Vitrine de publicité pour de la lingerie, dans le grand magasin Matsuzakaya à Ginza, Tokyo. Japon, 1958, 1958

Courtesy: ©Marc Riboud Galerie Le Réverbère

Modern print
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Dimensioni / Size: 30 x 40 cm
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Claude Estèbe about Marc Riboud

Published in «Marc Riboud, Histoires possibles», ed. RMN/ Musée Guimet, Paris, 2020
Excerpt(s) from “The Walking Man”
In 1955, Marc Riboud decided to leave France, his family and even Magnum.
George Rodger gives him his Land Rover with which he leaves three years to the roads of Asia.
Without an agenda… and no question of planning reports, she has a problem. In the fall of 1955, it leaves Istanbul, crosses the tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan and travels to his rhythm, happy with his solitude, settling a few months in Nepal and spending a year in Calcutta, with Satyajit Ray and Ravi Shankar.
In 1958, he ended his journey through Indonesia and Japan, the subject of his first book. Roads Afghan, Indian, Chinese and Japanese taught him, he said, something that none of master however great he might not have taught me».
After this trip, everything is in place. He will now continue, with as much going on,
reporting and travelling throughout his long career.
Marc Riboud’s collection is now at the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet
(MNAAG) where he will interact with the rich Asian collections of the museum. Thus, his work responds to that of one of the first great pioneers of war reporting, Felice Beato (1832-1909), of which the MNAAG holds rare albums, on India, China, Burma and
Japan.
Marc Riboud’s work, despite its incredible diversity, remains extremely coherent,
because it addresses all subjects while maintaining a continuum of aesthetics and sensitivity who owes much to the fact that he has almost never accepted any order work, does not not wanting to leave an angle of view on a subject or a trip in advance.
Marc Riboud was “very, very happy with [his] stay in Tokyo,” struck by “this balance
on the tightrope that the Japanese maintain with difficulty, between this furious
westernization and industrialization, and the oriental instinct that remains in life
each person’s daily life”, as well as the “chaotic aspect of a society left to chance”
He met the photographer Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999), at work almost ethnographic and which has a sense of volumes, spontaneity and freshness
But life in Japan is expensive, Riboud can’t get enough reports to cover his expenses and, after spending almost four months which he took two hundred and fifty films, he must shorten his stay, with regret.

Marc Riboud

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Marc Riboud is born in 1923 in Saint-Genis-Laval near Lyon. In 1937 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris he takes his first photos using a small vest pocket Kodak given to him by his father for his 14th birthday. In 1944 he joins the resistance in the Vercors. From 1945 – 1948 he studies engineering at the Ecole Centrale in Lyon and starts to work. Three years after he decides to become a photographer.
In 1953 his photograph of a painter on the Eiffel Tower appears in Life Magazine. This is his first publication. Invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa he joins Magnum Photos agency.
In 1955, he travels by road through the Middle East and Afghanistan to India and stays for one year. In 1957 he travels from Calcutta to China making the first of what will be many long stays. His road trip to the East ends in Japan where he finds the subject for what will become his first book, Women of Japan.
In 1960, after a three-month stay in the USSR, he covers the struggles for independence in Algeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1968 and 1969 he photographs in both South and North Vietnam, one of the rare photographers allowed entry.
In the 80s and 90s, he returns regularly in Orient and Far East, especially in Angkor and Huang Shan, but he also follows the rapid and considerable change of China, a country he has been looking at for thirty years.
In 2011 Marc Riboud makes a dation in payment of 192 original prints made between 1953 and 1977 to the National Museum of Modern Art (Centre Georges Pompidou), Paris. His work has been distinguished by prestigious awards and is exhibited in museums and galleries in Paris, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, etc.
Marc Riboud passed away in Paris, at 93 years old, on August 30th 2016. The core of his archives has been donated to the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet, Paris.