The French photographer Marc Riboud, author of images that took historical significance, especially the Vietnam War and portraitist of the Chinese Cultural Revolution sent, died yesterday at age 93 in his country. One of the most memorable photos he took was titled offering a flower girl soldiers . He represented the spirit of an era and she looked peaceful activist facing a military rifles, during a demonstration against the Vietnam War in 1967, in Washington.
The first impact was achieved with Painter on the Eiffel Tower, published in Life magazine in 1953. There is a worker restoring the huge metal structure at a height causes vertigo, without any protection.
Riboud was born in Lyon in 1923. in 1944 participated in the struggles of the French resistance against the occupation by Nazi Germany and the following year began engineering studies in Lyon, but in early ’50 he left that profession to devote himself to photography
in Paris, he met two giants image. Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. He joined the Magnum agency, which years later would become president. He made photographic reports on the regime of Mao in China, toured the Soviet Union, India and the Middle East. He portrayed also the conquest of the independence of Algeria and several countries of black Africa. Since the 80s, his work was axis shows in Paris, London and New York, among other cities.
The website Riboud himself announced the news of his death, under a picture photographer with a camera and the sentence of a pope of the Middle Ages: “Seeing is paradise soul. “
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