Group exhibition “Clic. Photographier pour raconter” at Musée de l’illustration jeunesse, Moulins
Musée de l’illustration jeunesse, 26 rue Voltaire, 03000 Moulins
For more information: site internet du musée
Group exhibition “Who’s afraid of Flowers?” at musée Fragonard, Grasse, France
During all summer, The Young Girl Holding a Flower, the iconic photograph by Marc Riboud, will be on view at musée Fragonard in Grasse, in an exhibition that deeps into a century of photography exploring the power of flowers.
This celebration coincides with Fragonard’s hundredth birthday.
Poster’s photograph: Maud Stevens Wagner, trapeze artiste and first female tattoo artist known in the USA, around 1907. The Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Siver gelatin photographic print, 14 × 10 cm © Library of Congress, Washington, USA
Curator: Charlotte Urbain
Adress: Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 14, rue Jean Ossola, 06130 Grasse
Free entrance, from Monday to Sunday, from 10 am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6:30pm
For more information: fragonard.com/en-int/exhibition-qui-a-peur-des-fleurs
Photography Festival of Haut Lignon
The 6th edition of the photography festival of Haut Lignon gathers works exploring the sky and its people by all means, including a rare serie of dye transfer prints by Marc Riboud, from his serie of the yellow mountains in China. These works will be shown together with prints from Michael Kenna and Masao Yamamoto, selected by Didier Brousse, founder of Camera Obscura gallery.
Exhibition presented at 24 rue Neuve, 43051 Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, free entrance from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2:30pm to 6:30pm.
For more information (in French): 6x6photos-hautlignon.fr
Magnum Photos Square Print Sale
We are happy to inform you of our participation to the “Magnum Square Print Sale”, this time on the theme of “Odyssey”, with this photograph taken by Marc Riboud in Khyber Pass, at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in 1956.
During a few days only, until Sunday 29th of March, a choice of the greatest images by Magnum photographers, in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery, are available for sale in a small format (6x6inches), at the price of 110$.
For more information about Marc Riboud’s photograph:
www.magnumphotos.com/shop/products/
Night of Photography at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
New edition of Photo Poche
A new edition of Photo Poche has just been published by Actes Sud (in French).
The choice of photographs has been reviewed, but the introduction is still the original text written by Marc Riboud, for the first edition in 1989, which is still vivid nowadays.
For more information: actes-sud.fr/catalogue/marc-riboud
Exhibition « Marc Riboud & Bruno Barbey: Crossed looks » at Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat, Morocco
The exhibition will include 77 prints of photographs by Marc Riboud, ment by Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts, Paris.
For more information on Mohammed VI Museum (in French): fnm.ma
Magnum Photos Square Print Sale
We are happy to inform you of our participation to the “Magnum Square Print Sale”, this time on the theme of “Youth”, with this photograph taken by Marc Riboud in Ghana, 1960, at the time of decolonization.
During a few days only, until Sunday 26th of October, a choice of the greatest images by Magnum photographers are available for sale in a small format (6x6inches), at the price of 110$.
For more information about Marc Riboud’s photograph:
www.magnumphotos.com/shop/products/
Exhibition “Forty years around the world” at KLV Art Project, Vienna, Austria
This exhibition will show for the very first time in Austria the work of Marc Riboud, featuring over 40 black & white photographs taken around the world between 1953 and 1995. From one country and one period to another, the exhibition will underline the poetry, humanity and beauty of his photographs, some of which have become iconic ones such as “the Painter on the Eiffel Tower”. Others will be on show for the first time especially a serie of vintages of Prague in the 70s-80s.
Exhibition curated by KLV Art Project
Adress: Forum am Schillerplatz, Robert-Stolz-Platz 3, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours: 28 May to 4th July and 15 September to 2nd November:
Free entrance, from Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 3:30pm and on Saturday: noon to 6pm
For more information: klv-artprojects.com
Exhibition “L’œil du voyageur” at Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France
Villa Tamaris presents a large retrospective of Marc Riboud’s work, whose numerous travels and long carrier are shown through more than 150 prints. Loaned by the Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts, Paris, this selection shows extensively his works in Asia, where he started to travel during the 50s. Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Japan… but also China where Marc Riboud went numerous times, recording the rapid changes of the country, from the Great Leap Forward to the economic boom of the 2000s and, last but not least, his serie on Huang Shan, the “yellow mountains”, an inspiration for painters and poets.
His reportages on the independences, in Algeria, Subsaharan Africa, and during the Vietnam war are also exhibited, in the vicinity of more contemplative series on Angkor temples and Alaska.
Marc Riboud enjoyed sharing with younger photographers, and a special invitation is made to Caroline Abitbol to present her in depth work on India.
