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PDF (1.2mb)  Who is the artist? Marc Riboud What is the name of the artwork? Beijing What materials were used? Gelatin silver print Where is the artist from? France When was the artwork made? 1965  Marc Riboud is a member of Magnum, which is a group of well-known outstanding photojournalists. Riboud has traveled around the world, documenting people and events though photographs. His images show the kindness and respect he has for his subjects, as well as a strong sense of beauty with interesting camera placements. Riboud combines emotional description with wonderful composition in his images.  Riboud’s photograph, Beijing, is part of a well-known series of images he made of China during his visits beginning in 1957. The photograph was taken inside looking out onto a street. This is a photograph about framing. Riboud has arranged the photograph so that we look through different windows onto a street scene with people and buildings in Beijing. Using the windows in this manner creates a number of smaller scenes within the larger one. A shop with a similar pattern of windows on the far side of the street can even be seen through one of these rectangular openings. What different scenes do you see in each window? How would the photograph be different if there were no windows? If you took a picture of the outside, through your bedroom window, what would be in the frame?  Composition - How you arrange objects in a photograph or picture . Framing - When you arrange the subject, foreground, and background within the boundaries of a frame. For example: when you are looking through a camera and place a person in the center of the rectangular camera window. Photojournalist - Photographers who usually work for newspapers and magazines to photograph important events, people, or places. |
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Marc Riboud France, born 1923 Beijing Gelatin silver print, 1965 Collection Museum of Photographic Arts Gift of Mother Jones International Fund 1992.023.001 © Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos © Museum of Photographic Arts  |
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1914 World War I begins 1923 Marc Riboud is born in France 1933 First modern airplane flies with passengers 1948
1962 First seat belt 1965 Riboud photographs Beijing 1975 Desktop computer invented |
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