You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe (Michelle Lamuniere)

You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe

Michelle Lamuniere

Published by Harvard Art Museums, 2001

ISBN 10: 0300091885 ISBN 13: 9780300091885

The catalog of an exhibition organized by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard U., on view during fall 2001. It presents work from a highly regarded commercial photography studio that operated in Mali’s capital, Bamako, in the decades before and after independence from France in 1960. The warm-toned b&w portraits combine formulas of Western portrait photography with local aesthetics to create images that are both souvenirs of special moments and also symbols of wealth and the sitters’ status in the community. In addition to reproducing more than 70 portraits, the catalog includes excerpts of recent interviews with the photographers and an essay placing their work within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa.

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