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A wonderful collection of negative which were thought lost forever until they were turned up by accident. Marc had been working in Paris with H.Cartier- Bresson and moved to London where he was working with Robert Kappa, be good to name drop those as your acquaintances. I journeyed north and took this iconic collection of photographs. Whilst he was in Leeds he heard that his friend Robert Kappa had been killed on an assignment. He dropped everything to go to his friends funeral including his rolls of exposed film taken with his trusty Leica camera. Through time he came separated from them and they were assumed losthttp://www.local-history.co.uk/news/090420LeedsRiboud.htmlA book of his Leeds Photographs is for sale at the museum and well worth a look

I agree - a wonderful collection of superbly composed images.

kenneth wrote: A wonderful collection of negative which were thought lost forever until they were turned up by accident. Marc had been working in Paris with H.Cartier- Bresson and moved to London where he was working with Robert Kappa, be good to name drop those as your acquaintances. I journeyed north and took this iconic collection of photographs. Whilst he was in Leeds he heard that his friend Robert Kappa had been killed on an assignment. He dropped everything to go to his friends funeral including his rolls of exposed film taken with his trusty Leica camera. Through time he came separated from them and they were assumed losthttp://www.local-history.co.uk/news/090420LeedsRiboud.htmlA book of his Leeds Photographs is for sale at the museum and well worth a look Yes it gave me an excuse to revisit Leeds and I came back over the Pennines just to see it. I enjoyed the exhibition but can't say I enjoyed driving around the city centre looking for somewhere to park. Maybe i was just frustrated that as a motorist I now get lost in a city that I used to know like the back of my hand.

In 1954 I was 8 and lived in Newtown/Burmantofts where manyof the photos were taken.No need to go into town these days but exhibition was worth the effort.Is this the whole set or are there more photos we don't know about?

I thought the exhibition at the museum was great with, as others have mentioned, superb picture composition and, of course, the best subject matter.