As a part of the Rendez-vous festival of France in Croatia, the work of this 92-year old doyen of modern photography were presented in previous exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Crafts (June 16 – July 19) and in Dubrovnik at the Sponza Palace (July 25 – August 13).
According to Split.com.hr, the exhibition includes the 15 most famous Riboud´s photos and another 30 works made in 1953 during his stay in Croatia. Those photo series “Dalmatia” (Vrlika, Cetina Valley, Split, Trogir and Dubrovnik) has been acclaimed in the world and for us, it is presious as a testimony of the past time.
From Marc Riboud´s official website:
“Marc Riboud is born in 1923 in Lyon. At the Great Exhibition of Paris in 1937 he takes his first pictures with the small Vest-Pocket camera his father offered him. During the war, he took part in the Vercors fights. From 1945 to 1948 he studies engineering and works in a factory. After a week of holiday, during which he covers the cultural festival of Lyon, he drops his engineering job for photography.
In 1953, he publishes his famous « Eiffel Tower’s painter » photograph in Life magazine and joins Magnum agency after meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. Robert Capa later sends him to London to see girls and learn English. He doesn’t learn that much English but photographs intensely.
In 1955, he crosses Middle-East and Afghanistan to reach India, where he remains one year. He then heads toward China for a first stay in 1957. After three months in USSR in 1960, he follows the independences movement in Algeria and Western Africa.
Between 1968 and 1969 he’s one of the few photographers allowed to travel in South and North Vietnam.”
The Galery is open Mo.-Sat.: 10.00-12.00 & 17.00-23.00
