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Seydou Keita Seydou Keita 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, Keita 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.
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- PublisherSteidl
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 3869303018
- ISBN 13 9783869303017
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages412
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Seydou Keita: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW in publisher's shrink wrap. Hard bound in original clear printed mylar dust jacket. Housed in original publisher's cardboard clam shell box, as issued. RARE! [ Large and Heavy - Please contact for overseas shipping quote ]. Seller Inventory # 87889
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Fine/Mint. First Edition. Illustrated cloth hardcover with glassine dust cover. Includes original cardboard stamped box. Oversize 4to. [Unpaginated] 412 pp. 319 b/w photo plates. Includes an interview between Seydou Keitta and André Magnin. Remarkable (mainly) studio photographs of people and costume in the period before and just after Mali's independence and decolonization. "Serving elite and middle-class patrons, his images often highlight the idealized or imagined socio-economic status of his sitters through the inclusion of props: cosmopolitan clothing and accessories, radios, telephones, bicycles." [This is a heavy, oversized book that will require additional postage for international or expedited shipping. We will contact you with actual costs before shipping.]. Seller Inventory # Z12-DFd736-0100
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover. 4to. Steidlangin, Gottingen, Germany. 2011. 412 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Brand new in the original publisher's shrinkwrap and still in the original shipping box. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. African portraitist Seydou Keïta lived in Bamako, Mali, then part of the colony of French Sudan and a bustling transportation hub on the route to Dakar, from 1921 to 2001. A self-taught photographer, with a Kodak Brownie given to him by his uncle, Keita took up photography at the age of fourteen, he opened a studio in 1948 and specialized in portraiture. Seydou Keïta s photographs eloquently portray Bamako society during its era of transition from a cosmopolitan French colony to an independent capital. Whether photographing single individuals, families, or professional associations, Keïta balanced a strict sense of formality with a remarkable level of intimacy with his subjects. Like many professional photographers, he furnished his studio with numerous props, from backdrops and costumes, to Vespas and luxury cars. He would renew these props every few years, which later allowed him to establish a chronology for his work He worked intuitively, reinventing portrait photography through his search for extreme precision. In 1962 the newly installed Socialist government made Keïta its official photographer; shortly thereafter he closed down his studio, although he remained active until his retirement in 1977. His archive of over 10,000 negatives was gradually brought to light in the early 1990s; Keïta has since achieved international recognition. Inventive and highly modern, his emphasis on the essential components of portrait photography light, subject, framing firmly establishes Keïta among the twentieth-century masters of the genre. EB; 15.3 X 11.7 X 2.2 inches; 412 pages. Seller Inventory # 60635
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