“La jeune fille à la fleur”, a new book published by Le Seuil
1967. The Vietnam war is bogged down. In the United States, the pacifists’ voices are getting louder. They decide to challenge President Lyndon Johnson by assembling in Washington, DC, on October 21st, around the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. There are about one hundred thousand of them. At the end of the day, about half of them move towards the Pentagon.
The photographer Marc Riboud had made the trip. He was one of the few European photojournalists to be on site and suddenly he shot a surprising face-to-face confrontation: a young woman, just seventeen years old, Jan Rose Kasmir, approached the row of rifles with bayonets fixed, a flower in her hand. The photograph, shot at dusk, goes around the world. The young woman with the flower is one of those pictures that has a history.
Today, a book by the French journalist and author Philippe Séclier allows us to follow its genesis with many supporting documents. The author centres on the testimonies of Marc Riboud and Jan Rose Kasmir, who lost each other, then met again for the first time in 1998, and again in January 2003 in London during another large demonstration, this time against the Iraq war.
Fifty years later, The young woman with the flower remains more than ever one of the most beautiful symbols of non-violence and the rejection of war.
La jeune fille à la fleur is published by Le Seuil, collection Fiction & Cie.
Price : 16€.
Exhibition “Women of Japan” at Leica Gallery in Kyoto
Discover the serie “Women of Japan”, taken by Marc Riboud in 1958, at Leica Gallery in Kyoto.
Adress: 570-120 Gionmachi minamigawa, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11am to 7pm.
For more information on the exhibition space (in English).
“Hommage à la beauté”, group exhibition at Gallery Agathe Gaillard, Paris
The Gallery Agathe Gaillard reopens in Paris with a group exhibition entitled “Hommage à la beauté”.
You will find two photographs by Marc Riboud, among a selection of prints by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Edouard Boubat, Emmanuelle Bousquet, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Luc Choquer, Giorgia Fiorio, Claude Iverné, Marie-Paule Nègre…
For more information: https://galerieagathegaillard.com/
Exhibition at Leica Gallery in Tokyo
Discover a selection of Marc Riboud’s most iconic photographs at Leica Gallery Tokyo.
Adress: Leica Gallery Tokyo, 6-4-1 Ginza Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11am to 7pm.
For more informations on the location (in English) and on the exhibition (in Japanese).
Group exhibition “Magic Moments” at Leica Store in Lille
M for “Magic Moments”, M for Magnum Photos, M for Leica M. Sixteen photographers of the agency are gathered in this exhibition which celebrates the 70th birthday of Magnum Photos. After having been shown in Paris, it is coming to Lille…
Adress: Leica Store, 10, rue de la Monnaie, 59000 LILLE
Free entrance, from Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-12:30 and 1:30pm-7pm.
For more information (in French): Leica store’s Facebook page
Group exhibition “Magnum Analog Recovery” at LE BAL, Paris
Discover photographs by Marc Riboud in the exhibition « Magnum Analog Recovery » at LE BAL.
LE BAL presents a choice of prints from the agency’s vintages, along with book dummies and magazines, since Magnum Photos was created in 1947, until 1977. Icons of the 20th century will be exhibited next to previously unseen images, as part of the photographers’ dialogue on the definitions, issues and contradictions of their work, in the early years of the greatest photographers’ cooperative in the world.
As part of the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris, a visit is organized on Sunday the 30th of April at 4pm. Please book here.
For more information (in French): http://www.le-bal.fr/
Group exhibition “Magic Moments” at Leica store in Paris
M for “Magic Moments”, M for Magnum Photos, M for Leica M. Sixteen photographers of the agency are gathered in this exhibition which celebrates the 70th birthday of Magnum Photos.
Exhibition from April 28th to September 1st 2017 at the Leica Store, 105 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris.
Free entrance from Monday to Saturday, 10am – 7pm.
Exhibition “Marc Riboud, Cuba 1963” at Fototeca, Habana
Marc Riboud’s photographs taken in Cuba in 1963 will be exhibited in Havana for the first time!
Public opening on April 28th, then the exhibition will be on view untill the end of May.
For more information : http://www.fototecadecuba.com/
Exhibition “Marc Riboud, Retrospectiva” at the Alliance française of Habana, Cuba
For the first time Marc Riboud’s photographs will be exhibited in Cuba!
The Alliance française will host a retrospective of 39 among the photographer’s most famous works and screen the movie “Chines” directed by François Tisseyre.
The entrance is free.
Adress: Alianza Francesa de Cuba, Palacio de Prado, Prado Esq. A Trocadero
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/AlianzaFrancesaDeLaHabana/
Exhibition of Marc Riboud’s work in Beirut for Photomed Liban
Let’s meet in Beirut to discover the exhibition “Au gré des voyages”, a tribute to Marc Riboud at Institut français du Liban, organized by the festival Photomed Liban.
(Photograph by Sergio Strizzi on the poster)
The festival will gather a number of photographers in different locations, among them the head office of Byblos Bank, the Institut français du Liban, the hotel Gray Beirut, Station and D BEIRUT.
For more information: http://photomedliban.com/en/