Tag: Fidel Castro
“Cuba”, an exhibition at Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille
Discover Marc Riboud’s photographs taken in Cuba in 1963, and his interview with Fidel Castro at the moment of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, as part of the festival OLA CUBA organized by Lille 3000.
at Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse,
32 rue de la Monnaie, 59800 Lille
For more information on the location (in French): website of Lille city
For more information on OLA CUBA: website of Lille 3000
Exhibition “Cuba, 1963” at Brownstone Foundation, Paris
Discover the photographs taken by Marc Riboud in Cuba in 1963, with a selection of vintage prints, modern prints and magazines.
This exhibition will relive the great scoop of Jean Daniel and Marc Riboud, gone to visit the island and interview Fidel Castro in 1963. After days of waiting, Castro showed up in their hotel room and talked until and early hour. The next day, Marc Riboud gone back to France, Jean Daniel is having lunch with Castro when the phone rings: Kennedy has been assassinated. This interview will be THE scoop of young Jean Daniel, and Marc Riboud’s photographs will be published around the world.
The book CUBA, published in August by La Martinière (in French), with texts by Jean Daniel and Marc Riboud, and a foreword by Wim Wenders, accompanies the exhibition.
Exhibition opened from Thursday to Sunday, 2pm to 7pm. Free entrance.
Brownstone Foundation, 26 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris.
New book “CUBA” at éditions de La Martinière
Today is released Marc Riboud’s new book: CUBA, published by éditions de La Martinière, with texts by Jean Daniel and Marc Riboud, and a foreword by Wim Wenders!
This book will relive the great scoop of Jean Daniel and Marc Riboud, gone to visit the island and interview Fidel Castro in 1963. After days of waiting, Castro showed up in their hotel room and talked until an early hour. The next day, Marc Riboud gone back to France, Jean Daniel is having lunch with Castro when the phone rings: Kennedy has been assassinated. This interview will be THE scoop of young Jean Daniel and Marc Riboud’s photographs will be published all around the world.
The photographs of Cuba will be exhibited at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan from August 27th to September 11th 2016 and in Brownstone Foundation in Paris from October 29th to November 27th 2016.