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Flower power photographer Marc Riboud dead

Riboud was among few photographers who managed to enter North Vietnam in the late 1960s.

Paris: One of France’s most famous photojournalists, Marc Riboud, whose 1967 snap of a protester confronting US soldiers with a flower captured the movement against the Vietnam war, has died aged 93.

Riboud, equally famed for a 1953 picture of a workman painting the Eiffel Tower high above the Paris skyline, passed away on Wednesday after a long illness, a family member said.

Riboud was among few photographers who managed to enter North Vietnam in the late 1960s. Riboud said he took pictures “like a musician hums”.

( Source : AFP )
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