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Photographs Bamako, Mali 1948-1963

Seydou Keïta

BOO 4100 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Near Fine – Fine / Interior has very faint edge discolouration.
TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

 2011
EDITION LANGUAGE
First

 English
PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Steidl
 36 x 28.5 x 5 cm
CONDITION
Near Fine – Fine / Interior has very faint edge discolouration.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2011

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Steidl

DIMENSIONS
36 x 28.5 x 5 cm

ABOUT

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 14, 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Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1949–1970 draws on an expanded archive to offer over 400 portraits, mostly unpublished, from the height of the photographer's productivity in downtown Bamako.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 inspiration. 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.