/PHOTOGRAPHERS/PHER MARC RIBOUD

Marc Riboud

1923–2016 · French

No catalogued plates attributed to Marc Riboud yet — the catalog seeding is in progress.

Notes

Zero plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-22: zero rows returned; consistent with earlier round finding in issue #150). Born 1923 per ICP, Magnum, and Wikipedia. Death August 30, 2016 in Paris per Magnum (fetched 2026-05-22) and Wikipedia (fetched 2026-05-22); two-source corroboration. Nationality ‘French’ per ICP and Magnum. Birth June 24, 1923 in Saint-Genis-Laval per Wikipedia (pointer-only). Magnum gives birthplace as ‘Lyons’ (Lyon area). ICP verbatim career arc: interested in photography from 1937; studied engineering; fought French Resistance in WWII earning Croix de Guerre 1945; met Cartier-Bresson, Capa, and Chim in Paris 1951; left engineering job to freelance; invited to join Magnum 1953; became vice-president, president, and chairman of Magnum board; ‘gained recognition as a specialist in documenting Asian cultures’; retired 1979. Magnum gives: ‘Invited to join Magnum as an associate by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa in 1953’; full member 1955. Best known for 1967 anti-war photograph ‘The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet’ (Wikipedia). The absence of Riboud from the FoM catalog is consistent with the checklist record; no counter-evidence found in fetched sources. Research file: research/photographers/marc-riboud.md

External biography

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/marc-riboud/

Sources

src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist
src-icp-marc-riboud-archive
src-magnum-marc-riboud
src-wikipedia-marc-riboud-pointer