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Marc Riboud reflects on beauty in his surroundings throughout his 65-year-long career: “I never tire of watching for a surprise, for just the right note in a moment, be it humorous or moving. Beauty is everywhere.”

Marc Riboud’s wife Catherine Chaine recalls: “Perhaps it is Marc’s photographic signature to capture grace above all in a woman. There is, for instance the unknown woman photographed at Nigeria’s independence ball in the 60s. Or better still, the woman wandering Beijing’s streets in traditional aristocratic dress, staring with disdain at the crowd surrounding her in Mao-era …