1. Marc Riboud photographed his first picture in 1937, using his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera.
13 Facts About Marc Riboud
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Until 1951 Marc Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer.
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Marc Riboud moved to Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour, the founders of Magnum Photos.
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In 1957, he was one of the first European photographers to go to China, and in 1968,1972, and 1976, Marc Riboud made several reportages on North Vietnam.
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Marc Riboud has been witness to the atrocities of war, and the apparent degradation of a culture repressed from within.
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Marc Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including Life, Geo, National Geographic, Paris Match, and Stern.
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Marc Riboud twice won the Overseas Press Club Award, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the International Center of Photography in New York.
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Marc Riboud was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1998.
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One of Marc Riboud's best known images is Eiffel Tower Painter, taken in Paris in 1953.
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In 1961 Marc Riboud married the American sculptor Barbara Chase, who was living in Paris.
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Marc Riboud became well known for her novel, Sally Hemings, which earned critical acclaim and became a bestseller.
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Marc Riboud later married Catherine Chaine, a journalist and author.
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Marc Riboud died in Paris on 30 August 2016, at the age of 93.