Marc riboud

French photographer best known for his iconic images of the flower girl facing the National Guard in the Vietnam war era and a well-balanced painter on the Eiffel Tower has died at age 93

About Painter of the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1953 / Printed Later Gelatin Silver print Signed in pencil with the photographer's stamp on verso.

Marc Riboud became interested in photography in 1937, when he took his first photographs with his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera. It was not until 1953, however, that he became a full-time photographer. During the intervening years, Riboud studied engineering and fought for the French Resistance in World War II, earning the Croix de Guerre in 1945. After meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Chim (David Seymour) in Paris in 1951, he left his job as a research engineer to make a…

Marc Riboud, 1923-2016, is a French photographer. He is known, among other things, for his books on his reports in… by siavach

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French press photographer Marc Riboud, born in 1923, died on August 30th at the age of 93 years old. Invited in 1953 by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa to join the prestigious Magnum Agency, …