Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) daa nyɛla Mali nira ŋun yaari anfooninima ka niriba mi o zaŋ chaŋ niriba mini o daŋ anfooninima yaabu polo o anfooninima yaabu tuma duu din be Mali tinzuɣu ni, Bamako, yuma din gbaai 1950s. O tuma nyɛla din ka mali ko, amaa nuuni tuunbaŋsim luɣa pam.

Kpibu
Keïta daa kpila Anashara goli 21 November 2001, Paris.

Publications
Keïta, Seydou, André Magnin, and Youssouf Cissé. Seydou Keïta. Zurich: Scalo, 1997. 
Lamunière, Michelle, Seydou Keita, and Malick Sidibé. You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 2001. 
Seydou Keita: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. .

Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2001: Flash Afrique, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria & Düsseldorf Cultural Forum, Germany
2011: Seydou Keïta, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2018: Bamako Portraits, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group exhibitions
1996: African Photographers, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2005: 
2006: About Africa, part one, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2006: Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2006: Vive l'Afrique, Galerie du Jour – Agnès b., Tokyo, Japan
2006: 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2007: Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2008: Accrochage, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2009: Masters of Photography, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2015: The Pistil's Waltz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

Collections
Keita's work is held in the following permanent collections:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: 8 items
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri: 2 items"Untitled, #162" Saint Louis Art Museum. Accessed 20 June 2017"Untitled, #58" Saint Louis Art Museum. Accessed 20 June 2017
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota: 6 items
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York: 10 items
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois: 5 items

 Further reading 
Bell, Clare. In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 24-September 29, 1996. New York, N.Y: Guggenheim Museum, 1996. 
Enwezor, Okwui, and Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection: Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity. Burlafingen: The Walther Collection, 2010. 

Kundivihira

External links




  Audio Slideshow from the New York Times.

  Video duration 1m 33s. Uploader London Review of Books 2016.

Category:Malian photographers
Category:Portrait photographers
Category:1920s births
Category:2001 deaths
Category:People from Bamako
Category:Date of birth unknown
Category:20th-century photographers
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