Riboud was born in 1923 in Lyon. At the Great Exhibition of Paris in 1937, he took his first pictures with the small Vest-Pocket camera his father gave him. During the war, he took part in the Vercors fights, and from 1945 to 1948, he studied engineering and worked in a factory. After a week on holiday, during which he covered the cultural festival of Lyon, he dropped his engineering job for photography. In 1953, he published his famous Eiffel Tower’s painter photograph in Life Magazine…
![Naples, A mafioso with his mother observes the life of the street. [Credit : Marc Riboud] Check out the 'tough guy' face! Marc Riboud, Vintage Photographs, Vintage Photos, Funny Family Photos, Fotojournalismus, Italian People, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vintage Italy, French Photographers](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ba/f8/46/baf8463293369187140eceace94bfa75--marc-riboud-famous-photographers.jpg)
