Marc Riboud
(France, b. 1923)
Just out of the Jungle, Nepal, 1956, (printed 2006)
Silver Gelatin Print

$3,200

Signed on front

This print was given to FotoFest by the artist in 1992.

Marc Riboud, one of the world’s most famous editorial and documentary photographers, was born in France and took his first photographs at age fourteen with his father's Vest Pocket Kodak. An engineer by training, Riboud became a photographer at an early juncture in his career, when he took a week off from work for the exclusive purpose of making pictures. In 1951, in his early career, he worked with the famed Magnum crew — Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Chim (David Seymour) —and became particularly close to Cartier-Bresson. In 1953, Riboud became an official member of the Magnum Agency and eventually became one of its officers.  Between 1955 and 1986, he traveled and photographed on assignment throughout the world — India, Nepal, China, the Soviet Union, North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Algeria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, including a motor tour from Alaska to Mexico. In 1979, Riboud left the Magnum Agency. Since that time he has revisited the breadth of Asia and Europe and eventually resettled in his homeland of France, where he lives today. He has been witness to and recorded the atrocities of war in Vietnam, photographing from both the Vietnamese and U.S. sides of the Vietnam War; as well as life and repression within China during the years of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. He has exhibited throughout the world and has published over fifteen books.