Retrospective “Marc Riboud, Verso il mondo” at Filatoio de Caraglio, Italy
The retrospective exhibition “Marc Riboud, Verso il mondo” is organized as a tribute to Marc Riboud, who left us ten years ago, with the curators Chantal and Gabriel Bauret, at Filatoio de Caraglio. The Filatoio is a former silk factory from the 17th century which, from the Piemont mountains use to send its silk skeins to Lyon, Marc Riboud’s native city. For this exhibition, Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts, Paris, lends 180 prints from Marc Riboud’s photographic archive, showing the diversity of Marc Riboud’s work and life.
Adress: Via Matteotti n°40, 12023 Caraglio (CN), Italy
For more information (in Italian) : filatoiocaraglio.it
Group exhibition “Plein les yeux ! Une histoire animale du livre photographique pour enfants” at Rouen Normandy Photographic Centre
(Re)discover 2 photographs by Marc Riboud in a new exhibition about the photography books for children. Through the theme of the animals, the exhibition enlights the variety of such books – from documentary to visual tale, from esthetic manifesto to poetic imagery. Combining books as well as modern and vintage prints, it gathers works by David Crossley, Dominique Darbois, Robert Doisneau, Charles Fréger, Tana Hoban, Frank Horvat, Xavier Lambours, Thérèse Le Prat, Jean Lecointre, Marc Riboud, Alexandre Rodtchenko, Jean Tourane, Tomi Ungerer, William Wegman and Ylla.
Associated curator: Laurence Le Guen
Adress: 15 rue de la Chaîne, 76000 Rouen
Free entrance from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2pm to 7pm, except bank holiday
For more information: centrephotographique.com
Exhibition “Memories of China” at the new Leica Gallery in Shanghai, China
Leica opens a brand new gallery space in Shanghai, with an exhibition of Marc Riboud’s works. Through a selection of 30 prints, unrolls his vision of this city, from his first stay in 1957 untill the economic boom of the 2000s.
Adress: U15,16,17,20 West Bund Central, Longcheng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Free entrance everyday from 10 am to 10pm, except on Wednesday and Sunday
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