Marc Riboud

#2

1985

French photographer Marc Riboud was born in 1923. After spending time working in a factory during World War II, he turned his attention to photography full-time. He traveled the world and captured iconic images such as the famous Eiffel Tower Painter and Flower Child, taken during the March on the Pentagon in 1967, and covering such events as Watergate and the Vietnam War. He was a member of Magnum Photos until 1979, and his photographs have appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Life, and Paris Match. This latest volume in the Photofile series assembles the candid, soulful moments that Marc Riboud is renowned for capturing in one accessible volume.

#3

2003

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.