For the Long Haul.

Photographs by Marc Riboud. Text by Éric Fottorino.

Atelier EXB, Paris, 2023. English, 232 pp., 132 B&W photographs, 9¼x12½x1¼".

Finding order in disorder, walking to look and keeping an eye open to all the surprises: Marc Riboud has surveyed the planet for more than sixty years. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, this retrospective book bears witness to the abundance of his work and to the singular, empathetic way in which Marc Riboud looked at the world. It presents previously unpublished images, notably his very first ones taken in the Alps in the 1940s and others taken in New York in the early 1950s to those of the 2000s, almost pictorial.

Understanding the world requires careful observation and to form an opinion, the photographer went to places where societies were changing: the 1954 dockers’ strike in Great Britain, Algeria during its independence in 1962, North Vietnam in 1969, the crowds of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, not forgetting the metamorphoses of China, Ghana, Japan... "Photography cannot change the world, but it can show it when it changes," he said. His images are as many encounters with other peoples as they are invitations to discover the beauty of elsewhere. Along the dusty or snowy roads, a science of framing and a search for harmony are outlined. "I take my hat off to the geometric and sensitive Marc," said his friend Henri Cartier-Bresson.

To accompany this visual journey, a selection of contact sheets open the book and shed light on his approach of the subject. A text, conceived as a poem, by the journalist and writer, Éric Fottorino, unveils several stories on his life and work, completed by an illustrated biography written by Catherine Riboud Chaine and Lorène Durret.

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