Jean-Pierre NAUD
Marc Riboud
PhotographerKnown for:
documentary photography in China and at the 1967 Pentagon antiwar march
Education:
École Centrale de Lyon (engineering, 1948); self-taught in photography
Marc Riboud joined Magnum Photos in 1953, a year after encountering Henri Cartier-Bresson. His photograph of an ironworker balanced on a beam of the Eiffel Tower (1953) is among the most widely reprinted of all Magnum images. He traveled to China more than a dozen times across five decades, producing one of the most sustained photographic records of the country's transformation from the Mao era through the reform period.
Marc Riboud's Gear List(1)
Leica
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Leica CameraInterview
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A committed Leica user throughout his career, Riboud has discussed his preference for the M rangefinder in multiple interviews; the camera's quiet shutter was well suited to the street and political work he produced over five decades.
Product description
Introduced in 1954, the M3 was Leitz's first camera to use the M bayonet mount. Its combined viewfinder and rangefinder, with 0.91x magnification, set a standard for 35mm rangefinder design that every subsequent Leica M followed.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
