Fine Print: Beijing, 1957 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)

Fine Print: Beijing, 1957 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)Marc Riboud was born in 1923 in Saint Genis Laval near Lyon. In 1937 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris he took his first photos using a pocket Kodak given to him by his father for his 14th birthday. In 1944 he joined the resistance in the Vercors. From 1945 1948 he studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale in Lyon and started to work. Three years after he made the decision to become a photographer. In 1953 his photograph of a painter on the

made after he left the publication

then moved to New York to join the new Pix photo agency and later Life

Allotments by Patrick Zachmann brings together photographs made in the community gardens of Seine-Saint-Denis between 1994 and 1995

They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light

In an extract from Pleine Mer: Men At Sea

I saw the situation and I said

she is probably the greatest person I have been privileged to know…

these women are constantly changing in a society that is also undergoing permanent evolution

This book is a memory of the time and love I shared with James and his children

Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe

written in a proto-Slavic language

From the grandly historic to the poignantly human