"A person has three sides: their face, their back, their profile. To snap a person's profile is interesting. To see someone from behind, especially my sisters or my mother, is more interesting. When you see a woman wearing a skirt from behind, it's a temptation. People have had car accidents that way. There was a beautiful woman walking in front of my studio and on the tarmac a man was coming on a Vespa. He saw the woman, forgot the road. A van was parked in front of my neighbor's house: he crashed into the van!" At the ...
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"A person has three sides: their face, their back, their profile. To snap a person's profile is interesting. To see someone from behind, especially my sisters or my mother, is more interesting. When you see a woman wearing a skirt from behind, it's a temptation. People have had car accidents that way. There was a beautiful woman walking in front of my studio and on the tarmac a man was coming on a Vespa. He saw the woman, forgot the road. A van was parked in front of my neighbor's house: he crashed into the van!" At the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, African contemporary art was shown for the first time in history. That year, its highest distinction, the Golden Lion, was awarded to Mali photographer Malick Sidib???, whose ebullient, deeply human, black-and-white work is presented here--on beautiful spot-varnished paper with special small, uncoated inserts sewn in. Malick Sidib??? was born around 1936 in Soloba, Mali. In 1952 he moved to Bamako, where he continues to live and work. His portraits and documentation of social life in Bamako, particularly of young people's activities, have been widely acclaimed. In 1995, his work was shown outside of Africa for the first time. Since then, his work has been exhibited throughout the world, garnering the 2003 Hasselblad Award and the 2007 Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 52nd Venice Biennale, among many others.
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Add this copy of Malick Sidibé: Photographs to cart. $250.00, very good condition, Sold by Harper's Books, ships from East Hampton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Göteberg: Hasselblad Center / Göttingen: Steidl.
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2003, Göteberg: Hasselblad Center / Göttingen: Steidl
Publisher:
Göteberg: Hasselblad Center / Göttingen: Steidl
Published:
2003
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A fine copy in blue cloth boards. In photo-illustrated jacket, with minor scuffing, else near fine. First Edition. Quarto. Published to commemorate Malick Sidibé's reception of the 2003 Hasselblad Foundation International Photography Award; the first time the honor was conferred upon an African photographer. Featuring 65 full-page black-and-white plates, reproducing Sidibé's photography; mostly portraits and party photos, from the late '60s through the early '80s. Accompanied by an interview of Sidibé by André Magnin, and essay from Manthia Diawara on the influence of both Black Power and James Brown on the culture of Sidibé's hometown of Bamako, Mali.
