World-renowned French photographer Marc Riboud, who died on Aug. 20, 2016 at age 93, was most recognized for two very famous photographs: the girl with the flower facing National Guardsmen poised with bayonets during an anti-Vietnam march on the Pentagon; and the whimsical image of a painter balancing precariously on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Over the years, Riboud’s globetrotting and keen eye produced a wealth of imagery from China to Iran to West Africa.
The March on the Pentagon and this 1967 iconic photo of seventeen-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir, first published in Life Magazine, helped turn public opinion against the U.S. war in Vietnam.
In an interview with The Guardian years later, Kasmir said she didn’t consider herself fearless: “This was before Kent State, so who would ever think that they would kill me?
“None of them made eye contact. They stonewalled me. But the photographer later told me he noticed them shaking. I think they were afraid they were going to be told to fire at us.”