Those who ignore his name known your photos: the French Marc Riboud, who died Tuesday at age 93, was part of the group of photographers whose images are known worldwide as “Fille à la fleur” (Girl with Flower) , showing a militant against the war in Vietnam facing the bayonets of the soldiers.
it a passerby was said, photographer more than a photojournalist, and liked to take his time to capture in black and white , crucial moments of a changing world.
Its slightly displaced, able to capture the moments of grace that are reflected, for example, in his “Peintre de la Tour Eiffel” (Painter of the Eiffel Tower), which seems to dance amid look the metal beams above Paris, brush in hand. A photo turned into an icon of the French capital.
“It seems that is in equilibrium with its brush. I have no merit, except having climbed walk the stairs snail Torre “said in 2009.
It was after selling the negative of this photo to the American magazine” Life “in 1953 that this young engineer, then in his thirties, from a family of the bourgeoisie of Lyon (east), will be “orderly” photographer and will meet Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, who invited him to join the prestigious agency Magnum.
In 60-year career, his photographs have been published in numerous magazines such as Life, Geo, National Geographic, Paris Match and Stern.
“Most of the time, look, I walk, I walked a lot,” summed up.
Wearing white hair and teasing mood, he defended their uniqueness. “I’m not a photojournalist, not an artist, I am a photographer, that’s all he repeated. Adding, “I’m not always good, but I try.”
Born June 24, 1923 near Lyon in a family of seven children, brother Antoine, future founder and chairman of giant agri-food sector Danone, and Jean, who will chair Schlumberger (oil services company), Marc Riboud started taking photos at age 14 with a black Vest Pocket camera used by his father in the trenches. (I)
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