World famous photographer Marc Riboud lets his lens do the talking in a new release titled I for Imagine. The reader journeys through a black and white vista that pans Asia and Africa in the 1950s and '60s. Words, images and feelings translate in a nostalgic timeline, each telling a story that transcends borders and bridges
World famous photographer Marc Riboud lets his lens do the talking in a new release titled I for Imagine. The reader journeys through a black and white vista that pans Asia and Africa in the 1950s and '60s. Words, images and feelings translate in a nostalgic timeline, each telling a story that transcends borders and bridges
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when the world is changing," Marc Riboud said in an interview about his profession, which became a way of life. 
A for ABDOMEN Old Delhi, India, 1956
The French legend has been known the world over for his stirring visual reportage and poignant frames, ever since the 88 year-old took his first photograph in 1937 using his dad's Kodak camera.
One of the first photographers to have travelled to China, Riboud's work took him across Asia, Africa and India, Nepal and Afghanistanu00a0-- many of these regions were uncharted terrain for Western photojournalists. Riboud managed to hold every photograph with an effortless balance, seated in the cusp of a natural, life-like existence. Perhaps, an impression cast on him when as a youngster, the great Henri Carter Bresson told him that the best way to judge the lines of a good photograph was to look at it upside down.
Sensitively pieced together by his wife and associate Catherine Chaine, I for Imagine is a photo journey that proffers a series of photographs for each letter of the English alphabet, and makes you wish there were more than 26.
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I for Imagine, Marc Riboud & Catherine Chaine, Translated by Linda Asher, Tara Books, Rs 750.
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