Thursday, 1 September 2016

Marc Riboud, photographer, dies age 93

The exhibition "Visa pour l'image" of photo-journalism at Perpignan (closes Friday) includes a selection of the work of one of France's most celebrated photographers, Marc Riboud, who died yesterday. Perpignan has a retrospective of his meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1963. His wife was due to be at the exhibition today.
Cuba 1963: Marc Riboud
One of his most famous pictures is the "Girl with a flower", showing a peace protester confronting armed guards at the Pentagon.
Photo Marc Riboud 1967