Malick Sidibé

Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) na he be a Malian photographer from a Fulani (Fula) village insyd Soloba, wey na dem note am for ein black-den-white studies of popular culture insyd de 1960s insyd Bamako, Mali.

Dem hold Sidibé ein work insyd de collections of The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), de J. Paul Getty Museum insyd Los Angeles, den de Museum of Modern Art insyd New York City.

Life
Na dem born Sidibé insyd de village of Soloba, 300 km from Bamako, insyd Mali. Na ein poppie be a Fula stock breeder, farmer, den skilled hunter dem name Kolo Barry Sidibé. Na Malick ein poppie want am make he attend school, buh he pass before na he be able make he attend for de age of 16.

Sidibé dieC.B. (16 April 2016). "In memoriam: Malick Sidibe's photographs captured the style and history of a newly independent Mali". The Economist. of complications from diabetes insyd Bamako. Na he be survived by 17 kiddies den three wifeys.
Publications

Publications by Sidibé
Malick Sidibé. Zurich; New York: Scalo, 1998. . Edited by André Magnin. With an introduction by Magnin, and essays by Sibidé ("Studio Malick"), Youssouf Doumbia, ("Ambiance totale avec Garrincha!"), Panka Dembelé ("Twist again!"), and Boubacar "Kar Kar" Traoré ("Elvis est vivant!"). Included a four-song music CD by Kar Kar.
Malick Sidibé, Photographe: "vues de dos" photographies. Carnets de la création, Mali. Montreal: Editions de l'oeil, 2001. . With a text by Amadou Chab Touré. 24 pages.
Malick Sidibe: Photographs: the Hasselblad Award 2003. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center; Göttingen: Steidl, 2003. . With a foreword by Gunilla Knape, an essay by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown", and a transcript of an interview with Sidibé by André Magnin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Malick Sidibé: 2003 Hasselblad Award Winner held at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, 2003.
Malick Sidibé: Chemises. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. . Catalog of an exhibition presented at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and at Musée Nicệphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
Malick Sidibe. Wilsele, Belgium: Exhibitions International, 2008. By Foundation Zinsou. .
Bagadadji. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. . With an essay by Florian Ebner, "La scène de Bagadadji". Portraits of the inhabitants of Bagadadji, Bamako, taken between 1964 and 1976.
 English-language version.
 French-language version.
 German-language version.
Perception. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. . In French. Studio portraits made in Brittany, France, over the course of three weeks in July 2006.
Malick Sidibé: La Vie en Rose. Milan: Silvana, 2010. Edited and with text by Laura Incardona and Laura Serani. .
Malick Sidibé: The Portrait of Mali (Sinetica Landscape). Milan: Skira, 2011. Edited by Laura Incardona, Laura Serani, and Sabrina Zannier. . Text in English, French and Italian.
Malick Sidibé: Au village. Montreuil, France: Éditions de L'Œil, 2011. . Text by Brigitte Ollier. Studio portraits taken in Sidibé's native village of Soloba over the course of 50 years. In French.
Malick Sidibé. :fr:Photo Poche No. 145. Arles, France: :fr:Actes Sud, 2013. . With an introduction by Laura Serani.

 Publications plus contributions by Sidibé 

 Photographes de Bamako: de 1935 à nos jours. Collection Soleil. Paris: Revue Noire, 1989. . Photographs by Sidibé, Mountaga Dembélé, Seydou Keïta, Félix Diallo, Sakaly, AMAP, Alioune Bâ, Emmanuel Daou, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and others. With a text by Érika Nimis. In French and English.
 In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996. . With an introduction by Clare Bell and essays by Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, and Octavio Zaya. Photographs by Sidibé, Cornélius Yao Azaglo Augustt, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Zarina Bhimji, Gordon Bleach, Nabil Boutros, Cloete Breytenbach, Salla Casset, Mody Sory Diallo, Mohammed Dib, Kamel Dridi, Touhami Ennadre, Mathew Faji, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Jellel Gasteli, Meïssa Gaye, Christian Gbagbo, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Ranjith Kally, Seydou Keita, Peter Magubane, Santu Mofokeng, G. R. Naidoo, Lamia Naji, Gopal Naransamy, Lionel Oostendorp, Ricardo Rangel, and Iké Udé. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May–September 1996.
 Clubs of Bamako: 9 March-16 April 2000. Houston, TX: Rice University Art Gallery, 2000. . Photographs by Sidibé, Emile Guebehi, Koffi Kouakou, and Coulibaly Siaka Paul. Catalogue of an exhibition.
 You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait – Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. . Edited by Michelle Lamuniere.
 Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé: Portraits of Pride: West African Portrait Photography. Katalog / Moderna Museet 318. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Raster-Förl, 2002. . Photographs by Sibidé, Samuel Fosso, and Seydou Keïta. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September–October 2002; Norskt Fotomuseum, March–April 2003. In Swedish and English.
 African Art Now: Masterpieces From the Jean Pigozzi Collection. London; New York: Merrell, 2005. . By André Magnin, Alison de Lima Greene, Alvia J. Wardlaw, and Thomas McEvilley. Paintings, photographs, sculpture and installation art by 33 artists. Catalogue of an exhibition of work from The Contemporary African Art Collection held at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
 The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Recent Art. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008. . Edited by Lynn Gumpert. With essays by Kofi Anyidoho, Lynn Gumpert, and John Picton, and contributions by Jennifer S. Brown, Lydie Diakhaté, Janet Goldner, Lynn Gumpert, John Picton, and Doran H. Ross. Reproductions of paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by Sidibé, El Anatsui, Samuel Cophis, Viye Diba, Sokari Douglas Camp, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane, Abdoulaye Konaté, Rachid Koraïchi, Atta Kwami, Grace Ndiritu, Nike Okundaye, Owusu-Ankomah, Yinka Shonibare, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, and Sue Williamson. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Grey Art Gallery, Sept. 16–Dec. 6, 2008."
 Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Burlafingen, Germany: The Walther Collection; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010. . Edited by Okwui Enwezor. With texts by Willis E. Hartshorn and Artur Walther, Okwui Enwezor, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Deborah Willis ("Malick Sidibé': the front of the back view"), Santu Mofokeng, and Kobena Mercer. Photographs by Sibidé, Sammy Baloji, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candice Breitz, Allan deSouza, Theo Eshetu, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumè, Pieter Hugo, Seydou Keïta, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Salem Mekuria, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, James Muriuku, Ingrid Mwangi, Grace Ndiritu, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Jo Ractliffe, August Sander, Berni Searle, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo Veleko. In English with German translation. Published to accompany an exhibition in Burlafingen, Germany, June 2010.
 Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2012. . Edited by Kate Bush and Gerry Badger. With texts by Bush ("Everything was moving"), Badger ("Spirit of the times, spirit of place: a view of photography in the 1960s and 1970s"), Gavin Jantjes ("Ernest Cole"), Sean O'Hagan ("The unreal everyday: William Eggleston's America" and "Against detachment: Bruce Davidson's photographs of America during the Civil Rights Era"), Tanya Barson ("Graciela Iturbide: a matter of complicity"), T. J. Demos ("On Sigmar Polke's Der Bärenkampf"), Helen Petrovsky ("Boris Mikhailov: towards a new universality"), Boris Mikhailov ("Yesterday's sandwich"), Ian Jeffrey ("Shomei Tomatsu"), Julian Stallabrass ("Rather a hawk?: the photography of Larry Burrows"), Robert Pledge ("Li Zhensheng: the cinematographer behind the photographer"), Manthia Diawara ("The sixties in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown"), Shanay Jhaveri ("Raghubir Singh and the geographical culture of India"), and Raghubir Singh ("River of colour: an Indian view"). Photographs by Sidibé, David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, William Eggleston, Bruce Davidson, Graciela Iturbide, Sigmar Polke, Boris Mikhailov, Shomei Tomatsu, Larry Burrows, Li Zhensheng, and Raghubir Singh. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, curated by Kate Bush, September 2012–January 2013 at Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London.
 Malian Portrait Photography. New Platz, New York: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2013. . Photographs by Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, El Hadj Hamidou Maïga, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and El Hadj Tijani Àdìgún Sitou. With text by Daniel Leers. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Malian Portrait Photography on display from January 23–April 14, 2013, in the North Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz."
 Afriphoto II. Collection Afriphoto, Vols 5–8. Trézélan: Filigranes, 2005. . Vol. 5 is by Sidibé, vol. 6 is by Bill Akwa Bétotè, vol. 7 is by Omar D, and vol. 8 is by Fouad Hamza Tibin and Mohamed Yahia Issa. Edited by Corinne Julien. With texts by Guy Hersant, Jacques Matinet, and Claude Iverné. In French.

 Publications about Sidibé 

 Retrats de l'Anima: Fotografia Africana. Barcelona: La Caixa Foundation, 1997. . By Sélim Benattiam, Cristina de Borbón, and Rosa Casamada. In Catalan and English. An exhibition catalogue. With a contribution by Mounira Khemir, "De una Punta a otra de Africa. Impresionas Fotograficas".
 The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown. Paper Series on the Arts, Culture, and Society, Paper No. 11. By Manthia Diawara. New York: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2001. . About Sidibé and James Brown.
 Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Vol. 4, No. 2/3. New York: New York University, 2002. Included an essay by Manthia Diawara, The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown.
 Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005. Edited by Harry J. Elam Jr., and Kennell Jackson Jr. . Includes a chapter by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown".

Awards
2003: Hasselblad Award for photography"Previous Award Winners". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
2007: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice BiennaleVan Gelder, Lawrence (11 June 2007), "Malian Photographer Honored at Biennale", The New York Times.
2008: Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York"Interview with Malick Sidibé". LensCulture. 2008.
2010: World Press Photo award – first prize singles, Arts and Entertainment"Arts and Entertainment, first prize singles". World Press Photo. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

 Collections 
Dem hold Sidibé ein work insyd de public collections wey dey follow:

 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi, Geneva
 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
 Museum of Modern Art, New York
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkIn and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL"Malick Sidibé". M+B Photo.
 Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)Permanent Collection: Untitled, c. 1974| The Studio Museum in HarlemPermanent Collection: Groupe de Barbus| The Studio Museum in Harlem
 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
 International Center of Photography, New York
 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
 De Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
 1995: Malick Sidibé: Bamako 1962–1976, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
 1999: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
 1999: Malick Sidibé. Photographie, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich
 1999: Cool Cats and Twist Club, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
 2000: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
 2001: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
 2001: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
 2002: HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London
 2003: Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
 2004: CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
 2004: Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
 2005: Photographs: 1960–2004, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
 2007: Malick Sidibé. C'est Pas Ma Faute, Musee des arts derniers, Paris
 2007: Malick Sidibé. Los Sabena Club, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
 2008: Malick Sidibé. Chemises, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 2009: Malick Sidibé. Bamako Nights, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône, France
 2010: "Studio Malick", Tristan Hoare, London
 2011: Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Bamako, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 2015: Studio Malick. Gares de Bretagne et Montparnasse, Frac Bretagne, Conseil régional and SNCF
 2014: Malick Sidibé, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
 2016: It's Too Funky in Here! By Malick Sidibé, FIFTY ONE TOO, Antwerp, Belgium
 2017: Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Modern Mali, Somerset House, London His first solo exhibition in the UK.

 Group exhibitions den festivals 

 1995: Seydou Keita & Malick Sidibe: Photographs From Mali, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
 1996: Double vie, Double vue, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
 1996: By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
 1999: 6th International İstanbul Biennial 1999, International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
 2000: Africa: Past-Present, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
 2001–2003: You look beautiful like that: The Portrait of Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL; National Portrait Gallery, London; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
 2004: Photography: Inaugural Installation, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
 2004: Seeds and Roots, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
 2005: African Art Now – Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
 2007: Why Africa? The work of 13 photographers including Sidibé, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Chéri Samba, Makonde Lilanga, and Keita Seydou, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy.
 2009: Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
 2009: Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
 2010: Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, USA
 2010: Un Rêve Utile: Photographie Africaine 1960–2010, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
 2010: Represent: Imaging African American Culture in Contemporary Art, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, USA
 2010: African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech
 2011: Paris Photo, Grand Palais, The Walther Collection
 2012: Afrika, hin und zurück, Museum Folkwang, Essen
 2012: Gaze – The Changing Face of Portrait Photography, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
 2012: Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Centre,
 2014: Back to Front, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
 2014: Ici l'Afrique, Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, France
 2015: The Pistil's waitz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
 2015: Making Africa. Un Continente De Diseño Contemporáneo, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
 2016: VIVRE !!, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
 2016: Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
 2017: Back Stories, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
 2017: Il Cacciatore Bianco / The White Hunter, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
 2017: Rhona Hoffman. 40 Years: Part 3. Political, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
 2020: Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collections, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

Film den television appearances
Malick Sidibé: portrait of the artist as a portraitist (2006). . Direct by Susan Vogel for de National Museum of Mali / Prince Street Pictures. Produce by Vogel, Samuel Sidbe, den Catherine de Clippel. Interview plus Sidibé by Jean-Paul Colleyn. Insyd French plus English subtitles.
Dolce Vita Africana (2008, Tigerlily Films). 62 mins. Direct by Cosima Spender. Produce by Natasha Dack, Nikki Parrott, den Spender. A documentary about Sidibé, den about Malian history as dem tell thru people he photograph. Insyd Bamanankan den French. Na dem show de film as part of BBC4 ein Storyville series insyd March 2008.
Malick Sidibé, le Partage (2013, P.O.M. Films; Éditions de L'Œil, ADAV). 52 mins. DVD den brochure. Film by Thomas Glaser, text by Gaël Teicher. . De film dey insyd French plus French den English subtitles, wey de text dey insyd French.

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 Malick Sidibé, Icontent, Douglas Sloan Director for YouTube top Video duration 6m:09s. Uploader Icontenttv, 2009. By Douglas Sloan.





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