Riboud, Marc — Marc Riboud

Tokyo, Japan, Pacific Press Service, for Robert L. Kirschenbaum, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Big, bold facsimile signature at half-title. Big, tall, quarto trade softcover in oblong format, featuring on the front cover his iconic Eiffel Tower painter. Some furling and slight creasing to tips, little wear to text-block per se, but with a damp-stain beginning at rear endpapers, dissipating backwards and not affecting text or images. Extremely scarcely available to the trade, there being currently only two copies available in China, none in the U.S. Bilingual text, in English and Japanese. Marc Riboud (1923 – 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive photojournalistic reports on the Far East: The Three Banners of China, Face of North Vietnam, Visions of China, and In China. A member of the French Resistance from 1943-1945, then for many years an engineer in Lyon factories, but an early convert to photography and mentee of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour, the founders of Magnum Photos. Later he traveled throughout Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Japan, witnessing warfare and associated violence up close on three continents, working in China during the Cultural Revolution, in Fez, Angkor, Acapulco, Niger, Benares, Shaanxi and elsewhere (Wikipedia). 84 plates in black-and-white, some double thumb-nail, some half-page, others full page, with captions, all in Kanji characters. Texts are from the Centre National de le Photographie, where an exhibit was also held. Fine portrait of the photographer at frontis by David Riboud. Robert L. Kirschenbaum, from the publisher, contributes an Acknowledgments section, noting the importance of the one-man exhibit of his work held in Japan, the first ever.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good