Fine Print: Beijing, 1971 Abbas Four vibrant frames document a

Four vibrant frames document a public moment of collective mourning in Warsaw

and enthusiasm

While he made his name photographing some of the most famous personalities of the 20th century

and suspected that he landed the assignment thanks to a sympathetic Magnum staffer — under the impression that the photographer would appreciate an easy-going job given his recent travels

After documenting him for a few days there

Fine Print: Beijing, 1971 Abbas Four vibrant frames document aMarc Riboud was born in 1923 in Saint Genis Laval near Lyon. In 1937 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris he took his first photos using a pocket Kodak given to him by his father for his 14th birthday. In 1944 he joined the resistance in the Vercors. From 1945 1948 he studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale in Lyon and started to work. Three years after he made the decision to become a photographer. In 1953 his photograph of a painter on the