Cannes - World Photography Exhibition

Sunday 19th we went to Cannes to see the World Photography show, but first lunch on the beach, with added heater for M:



It was SO peaceful:





"She used to be devoted to ME!":







On to the exhibition -



not without some confusion, it wasn't very clearly signposted, so it was not surprising that it was not crowded. But then the Rotonde exhibition space is so vast, even quite a big show like this was swallowed up with lots of room to spare:



But the French in general take film and photography a little more seriously than most Brits:





Two birds with one shot:





M. was NOT keen on this piece of photo art:



As usual there was a lot of picturesque poverty:



Even the architecture section was won by photos of quaint old buildings - not doubt to the despair of architects:



She tries to understand why these photos won:



The views from the Rotonde were also picturesque, but had nothing to do with poverty:



Somehow I think they're pro photographers:



The lifetime award was deserved:

Born in Lyon, France, Riboud went to high school there and made his first picture in 1937. He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from1945 to 1948. Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyons factories, then became a freelance photographer and in 1952 moved to Paris to meet Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, the founders of Magnum Photos. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come.

In 1957 he was one of the first European photographers to go to China, and In 1968, 1972 and 1976, Riboud made several reportages on North Vietnam and later traveled all over the world, but mostly in Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Japan.

Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including Life, Géo, National Geographic, Paris-Match, Stern. He twice won the Overseas Press Club Award, and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the International Center of Photography, New York.

One of Riboud's best known images is Eiffel Tower Painter, taken in Paris in 1953. It depicts a man painting the famous structure. He is posed as if a dancer, perched between the metal armature of the tower, below which the city of Paris emerges out of the photographic haze.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Riboud

The painter photo was used in the publicity and for the entry tickets, presented like a photographer's ID: