Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery

Marc Riboud

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Biography

Born in Lyon, France, Riboud went to high school there and made his first picture in 1937. He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from1945 to 1948. Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyons factories, then became a freelance photographer and in 1952 moved to Paris to meet Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, the founders of Magnum Photos. 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.

In 1957 he was one of the first European photographers to go to China, and In 1968, 1972 and 1976, Riboud made several reportages on North Vietnam and later traveled all over the world, but mostly in Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Japan.

Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including Life, Géo, National Geographic, Paris-Match, Stern. He twice won the Overseas Press Club Award, and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the International Center of Photography, New York.

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.

Seclected Solo Exhibitions

2008

"40 Years of Photography in China", Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery, Beijing, China.

2007

"marc riboud", galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany.

2006

"marc riboud - photographing the world 1953-2005", The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Galerie Arcturus, Paris, France.

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.

Publications

Women of Japan
Le Bon Usage du monde
Three Banners of China
Faces of North Vietnam
Bangkok
Chine: Instantanes de Voyage
Marc Riboud, photos choisies
Marc Riboud: Journal
Marc Riboud: l'embarras du choix
Photo Poche 37: Marc Riboud
Huang Shan
Le Grand Louvre
Angkor: Serenite bouddhique
Marc Riboud In China: Forty Years of Photography