Source
Marc Riboud — ICP Archive
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Marc Riboud.” ICP Archive. Accessed 2026-05-22. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/marc-riboud
Tier justification
Tier 1 per established practice in this project: the ICP archive page for Marc Riboud contains a full narrative biography. Treated as Tier 1 consistent with prior batches.
Relevance
Provides the primary narrative biography for Marc Riboud, including verbatim Magnum joining year (1953), birthplace (implied France), and career arc. Strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-22) returns zero rows for Marc Riboud — he has no plates in the FoM catalog.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim from the page (fetched 2026-05-22; cached at .scratch/icp-marc-riboud.html):
- Dates: “1923 - 2016”
- Nationality: “French”
- Full biography: “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 living through photography. He worked free-lance until in 1953 he was invited to join Magnum, the co-operative photographic agency founded by Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Chim, and George Rodger. Through Magnum, he traveled to Asia and Eastern Europe several times and gained recognition as a specialist in documenting Asian cultures. Riboud was a very active member of Magnum, in terms of his photographic production and his official capacity, as vice-president, president, and chairman of the board. Riboud retired in 1979, but the agency maintains his archives. He continues to photograph, most recently, devoting his energy to pursuing personal projects.”
- No mention of The Family of Man.
Notes
- ICP gives 1923–2016 at year-level. Magnum (src-magnum-marc-riboud) gives death date August 30, 2016, Paris; Wikipedia (src-wikipedia-marc-riboud-pointer) gives birth June 24, 1923, Saint-Genis-Laval, and death August 30, 2016, Paris.
- ICP gives birthplace only implicitly (not named); Magnum gives “Lyons” (Lyon), Wikipedia gives “Saint-Genis-Laval” (a commune near Lyon).