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Demain Shanghaï Marc Riboud

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Robert Delpire

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Every time a photographer poses a few prints in front of me, I cannot help but place the "humanist" - always a relationship to man - on the scale of values so well defined by Jean-Paul Sartre, without even judging the quality of the work presented.

Sartre says that he knew "the humanist who loves men as they are, who loves them as they should be, who loves in man his death, who loves in man his life".

Marc Riboud is a humanist who loves life. Obviously. From his first pictures. The scornful peacock who visits Jaipur, the pensioners of Villeurbanne drowned in their armchairs, the mists of Huang-Shang, the laughter of his daughter playing with her giant rabbits, it's all what Marc calls the happiness of the eye.

He is also the one who takes sides, who says how difficult it is to be Arab or Congolese, who says the horrors of war but does not develop his films in hemoglobin. There are no flowers with rifles in his contact plates but one sees there a flower which defies the rifles.

Everything we know about him, we learned in his photos. His discretion, his sense of measure and, to any test, his taste for the truth.

He says he's neither a philosopher nor a sociologist. That's true. But he's an artist. That's true too.

This book is proof of that. For beyond the description of a city whose dazzling evolution he has followed, there is a man who transcends the everyday and goes beyond the anecdote. The concern for form gives any image generated by Marc Riboud a specificity, an exceptional distinction.

Robert Delpire

Marc Riboud Tomorrow Shanghai

Preface by Caroline Puel - Legends of Marc Riboud's phographies - Calligraphies Feng Xiao-Min

Trilingual edition (French, English, Chinese) 

24 x 30 cm

160 pages

ISBN : 2-85107-213-7

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2018-02-26

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