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Seydou Keïta: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949-1970

Door Marion Liang

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#334477-MA1
Titel
Seydou Keïta: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949-1970
Auteur
Liang, Marion (editor)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Göttingen : Steidl
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
3869303018
ISBN13
9783869303017
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original decorated cloth with large mounted plate, transperent dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
Seydou Keïta was born in Bamako, Mali in 1921, then part of the colony of French Sudan and a bustling transportation
hub on the route to Dakar. With a Kodak Brownie given to him by his uncle, Keïta took up photography at the age of fourteen,
going on to establish what would become Bamako's most successful portraiture enterprise of the 1950s and 60s.
Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949–1970 draws on an expanded archive to offer over 400 portraits, mostly unpublished,
from the height of the photographer's productivity in downtown Bamako. Providing lushly patterned backdrops and
props that now serve to date distinct periods in his career, the artist often styled his subjects but also encouraged their
active participation, hanging sample portraits around the studio as inspirat... (Lees verder)ion. Migratory youth, government officials,
shop owners and Bamako's cultural elite all make appearances here, and while Keïta's photographs served as both
family record and cultural status symbol for the clients who commissioned them, these images have become a lasting
visual record of Mali at that time.
Seydou Keïta's work made its first international appearance in 1991 and has been exhibited extensively across Europe,
Japan and the United States.
Pagina's
412
Conditie
Goed — Transperent dust jacket slightly damaged: smll tears (1 repaired) and small pieces missing.
Prijs
€ 400,00

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