Source
Marc Riboud — Wikipedia
Citation
Marc Riboud. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-22 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Riboud.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Recorded here as a supplementary biographical anchor providing day-month birth and death date resolution.
Relevance
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).
Key excerpts / pages
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.