Marc Riboud
PhotographerKnown for: documentary photography in China and at the 1967 Pentagon antiwar march
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.
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Leica
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.
“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.”
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