Fine Print: Riot, Paris, 1968 Nikos Economopoulos and violet

and violet

becomes both the visual and spiritual focal point of the image

Thank you for having taken me for what I am and as one of yours

Three years after he made the decision to become a photographer

Fine Print: Riot, Paris, 1968 Nikos Economopoulos and violetMarc 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