Author: RIBOUD, Marc (photographer).
Title: [Visitors awaiting an audience with King Faisal].[Riyadh], 1974. The sheet is ca. 33 x 47 cm. One photographic print (ca. 25.5 x 40 cm), signed by hand. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve.
Description: [1] photograph.Beautifully captured image by Marc Riboud (1923-2016), an important and well-known French photographer. The photo shows a group of men waiting for their audience with King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975) at the royal palace in Riyadh. Hanging above them are the portraits of King Faisal and his father, King Abdulaziz al Saud (1876-1953), the founder of Saudi Arabia. The work is signed by Riboud.Riboud was born in France and joined the French resistance during the Second World War. He worked as an engineer, but had always been interested in photography, and made the decision to pursue it full-time during a short vacation in 1951. In 1953, he became a member of Magnum Photos, an international photography cooperative. This allowed Riboud to travel all over the world. He was one of the first European photographers to work in China, but he also made reportages in North Vietnam, Japan, various African countries, and the United States. He did not shy away from photographing the horrors of war, but was also adapt at capturing happier subjects. He is mostly known for his work in China and Vietnam, but the present work shows that his work in Saudi Arabia is equally captivating.The work is signed by Marc Riboud in ink in the lower right corner, with the copyright stamp of "Marc Riboud Magnum" on the back, and an ownership annotation in pen ("S de Decker"). The upper right corner and the edges are somewhat creased, with some damage on the back from a past passe-partout.

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