--- title: Humanist French Photographer Marc Riboud Dies Aged 93 description: He was famed for the 1967 image of a Vietnam War protester holding a flower as she confronted a row of National Guard servicemen. canonical: https://time.com/4473776/marc-riboud-photographer-died/ author: Olivier Laurent article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T09:50:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T03:15:49.000Z article:section: World og:title: Humanist French Photographer Marc Riboud Dies Aged 93 og:description: His work spanned more than 60 years og:url: https://time.com/4473776/marc-riboud-photographer-died/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9da4640502e8a39/69889b73196cf4592403c5a5/civil-rights-jan-rose-kasmir-1967.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1715 og:image:alt: Jan Rose Kasmir og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Humanist French Photographer Marc Riboud Dies Aged 93 twitter:description: His work spanned more than 60 years twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9da4640502e8a39/69889b73196cf4592403c5a5/civil-rights-jan-rose-kasmir-1967.jpg?branch=production ---  # The Humanist French Photographer Marc Riboud Has Died Aged 93 > Sponsored content. 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This march helped to turn public opinion against the U.S. war in Vietnam. Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the U.S. war in Vietnam.Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos by [Olivier Laurent](https://time.com/author/olivier-laurent/) ## Olivier Laurent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:15 AM UTCPublished: Aug 31, 2016 9:50 AM UTC The portrait became iconic overnight. Photographed in Washington D.C. in 1967, it showed a Vietnam War protester, Jan Rose Kasmir, holding a flower as she confronted a row of National Guard servicemen outside the Pentagon. The image became a symbol of the flower power movement and helped change public opinion against a war that had already lasted more than a decade. Its creator, the French humanist photographer Marc Riboud, [died on Aug. 30](http://www.lemonde.fr/photo/article/2016/08/31/le-photographe-marc-riboud-est-mort%5F4990288%5F4789037.html). He was 93. Riboud was a photography giant. An early [Magnum Photos](https://www.magnumphotos.com/) member – he joined in 1953, before the prestigious agency even had a proper membership process – he was best known for his photographic explorations across China, Japan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey, among many other countries. In 1963, he photographed Fidel Castro after the Cuban leader turned up in his hotel room. The resulting pictures were published around the world, cementing Riboud’s reputation. Riboud’s obsession was with photographing life” at its most intense,” he once [wrote](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/europe/marc-riboud-photographer-dies.html). “It’s a mania, a virus as strong as my instinct to be free. If taste for life diminishes, the photographs pale, because taking pictures is like savoring life at 125th of a second.” “Marc was passionate about the work, about China, about Africa, where he spent a lot of time. For me, it’s a considerable loss; an end of an era at Magnum,” his colleague at the agency, Ian Berry, tells TIME. “He was something of an eccentric in many ways. I remember him calling at two o’clock in the morning, he’d just got his contact sheets back from the lab after having been in China in the days when only the Swiss and the French could get in China. He called me to help him edit his contact sheets, which of course I did. He kind of taught me a lesson in photojournalism that night. He had a very beautiful horizontal photograph of a Chinese woman and he also had a vertical photograph of the same woman. He asked me which one I would choose, and of course I said the horizontal. He said: ‘Look at the vertical.’ The woman had her feet bound in the old Chinese way. ‘That’s the picture that Paris Match will use,’ he said. And he was right. He was a damn good journalist. That’s fairly uncommon in photojournalists. They are often photographers first and journalists third.” On Magnum’s [website](https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/in-memoriam-marc-riboud-1923-2016/), Martin Parr, the agency’s president, shared his condolences: “Marc’s association with Magnum has been a long and fruitful one. He was a terrific photographer and of particular note was his pioneering work in China, which he first visited in the late 1950s, and continued to photograph over the next three decades. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to his family.” “Few photographers have as many contact sheets as Riboud,” says Jean-François Leroy, the director of the _Visa_ _pour l’Image_ photojournalism festival, where Riboud exhibited this year. “His work is unique. He was comfortable with any subject, and even 50 years later, his work has not aged one bit.” Even today, his _Girl with the Flower_ photograph continues to resonate. “It’s very Gandhi-esque and more enlightened than the horror that’s around it. I think that’s why people are really drawn to it,” its subject, Jan Rose Kasmir, [told](http://time.com/4401559/baton-rouge-protest-photo-history/) TIME last month. “People do resonate with peace and do resonate with goodness and hope. That’s the attraction.”  A street as seen from inside an antique dealer's shop in Beijing, 1965. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  Canteen engineers have lunch while keeping their protective glasses on in a large steel mill built by the Soviets in Anshan, Liaoning province, China, 1957\. As in the rest of China, it is hard to distinguish the engineers from the factory workers. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  Zazou, the Eiffel Tower's painter, in Paris, 1953. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  Photographer's rally in Karuizawa, Japan, 1958. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  After bathing in the Ganges in Bénarès, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1956. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  The Great Wall in Hebei Province, China, 1971. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  Spanish painter Salvador Dali at his home at Port Lligat, near Cadaques, on the Costa Brava, Spain, 1963. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  State of Guerrero. Acapulco, Mexico, 1959. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  A tribal munitions factory near Kohat Pass on Afghanistan's lawless border with Pakistan, 1956. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  A factory in Cuba, 1963. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  A demonstration in China to protest against the U.S. military intervention in North Vietnam, 1965. Marc Riboud—Magnum Photos  An American girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the U.S. war in Vietnam. 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