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Marc Riboud — Wikipedia

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Marc Riboud. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-22 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Riboud.

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Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Recorded here as a supplementary biographical anchor providing day-month birth and death date resolution.

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Marc Riboud has zero plates in The Family of Man (count verified by grep 2026-05-22 against data/photographs.csv). This pointer provides day-month resolution for birth (June 24, 1923, Saint-Genis-Laval) and death (August 30, 2016, Paris).

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Verbatim from the article (fetched 2026-05-22; cached at .scratch/wikipedia-marc-riboud.html):

  • Full name: Marc Riboud
  • Birth: “24 June 1923” in “Saint-Genis-Laval, France”
  • Death: “30 August 2016” in “Paris, France”
  • Nationality: French
  • Magnum: “By 1953 he was a member of the organization”
  • Early career: Photographed first picture in 1937 using his father’s Vest Pocket Kodak camera; active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945; studied engineering at École Centrale de Lyon 1945–1948.
  • Notable work: 1967 photograph “The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet” — “among the most celebrated anti-war pictures.”
  • No mention of The Family of Man exhibition.

Notes

  • Birth date June 24, 1923 from Wikipedia only; not independently confirmed by ICP or Magnum (those pages give only year-level resolution or give “Lyons” as birthplace without specific town).
  • Magnum membership year consistent across ICP (1953) and Magnum pages.
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