Marc Riboud

• Name — Marc Riboud • Born — 24 June 1923 • Birthplace — Saint-Genis-Laval, France • Died — 30 August 2016 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — École centrale de Lyon • Occupation — Photographer • Spouse — Barbara Chase-Riboud (1961–1981; divorced) • Children — 2 • Awards — Lucie Award (2006) Sony World Photography Awards (2009) Prix Nadar (2012) • Website — www.marcriboud.com/

Riboud was born in Saint-Genis-Laval and went to the lycée in Lyon. He photographed his first picture in 1937, using his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera. As a young man during World War II, he was active in the French Resistance, from 1943 to 1945. After the war, he studied engineering at the École Centrale de Lyon from 1945 to 1948.

Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer. 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 reportages on North Vietnam. Later he traveled all over the world, but mostly in Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Japan. 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 Zedong'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. In 1979 Riboud left the Magnum agency. Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including Life, Géo, National Geographic, Paris Match, and Stern. He twice won the Overseas Press Club Award, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the 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.

In 1961 Riboud married the American sculptor Barbara Chase, who was living in Paris. They had two children. 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.

• 1958 Photographs From The Museum Collection (Museum of Modern Art, New York) • 1959 30th Anniversary Special Installation – Towards the "New" Museum (Museum of Modern Art, New York) • 1960 Photographs for Collectors (Museum of Modern Art, New York) • 1963 Marc Riboud (The Art Institute, Chicago) • 1964 Edward Steichen Photography Center (Museum of Modern Art, New York) • 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) • 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) • 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) • 2015 Marc Riboud (Salon Galic Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Croatia) • 2018 The World of Marc Riboud (Leica Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo)