Fine Print: Huế, 1968 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) ” Manos’ books American Color

” Manos’ books American Color and American Color 2 are object-lessons in the pursuit of vivid color and its flipside: tar-dense shadow

merging performance with introspection

‘they are about the process of their own making

he covered wars and revolutions in Biafra

provincial photographer Marc Riboud climbed the Eiffel Tower’s old spiral staircase with a Leica slung across his shoulder to photograph Zazou

Fine Print: Huế, 1968 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) ” Manos’ books American ColorMarc 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