Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. gelatin silver print on paper, untitled 28220

2014.22.2

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Artist

Malick Sidibé (Soloba, Mali, 1935 – April 14, 2016)

Title

untitled

Creation Date

ca. 1970

Century

late 20th century

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Africa, Mali

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2014.22.2

“It’s a world, someone’s face,” Malick Sidibé said in 2010. “When I capture it, I see the future of the world.” Known for his portrait photographs of Malians in the years after independence from France in 1960, Sidibé brings to life subjects ranging from burgeoning pop culture and youth clubs to everyday households. These portraits taken in Mali’s capital Bamako represent the artist’s approach to studio photography. In each photograph, Sidibé posed the sitters against patterned and painted backgrounds, which contrast with their dress. Sidibé’s portraits record the optimistic period of modernization that followed the end of the colonial era.