The exhibition devoted to the photographer Marc Riboud (1923-2016) celebrates the entrance of his entire oeuvre in the national collections, according to his wishes. An outstanding figure in photography, Marc Riboud left his hallmark on the second half of the 20th century with his deeply personal vision of the world. A photographer more than a reporter, he left us over 50 000 photographs (negatives, transparencies, and prints) in which Asia plays the leading role. Who among us does not identify with this or that picture we have always known and thus does not have the impression that leafing through the album of the world is like looking at our own family’s album? From right after the war to the timeless China of the Huangshan mountains, a journey of over fifty years on every continent, with a privileged place for Asia, is offered to us with this retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud’s work.
