Seydou Keïta
By: André Magnin (ed.) ; texts by André Magnin and Youssouf Tata Cissé.
Contributors: Cissé, Youssouf.; Magnin, André.
Edition: 1st Scalo ed.
Publisher: Scalo, c1997.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Zurich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Keita, Seydou, -- ca. 1921-2001 -- Interviews.; Keita, Seydou, -- ca. 1921-2001; Portrait photography -- Mali -- Bamako.; Bamako (Mali) -- Biography -- Portraits.
Description: "The thousands of portraits that Keïta took form an outstanding record of Malian society between the end of the Forties and the early Sixties. His photographs have become - in addition to their sociological value - works of art, free from tricks, eccentricity, or any attempt at illusion. As such they have acquired an objective character and a timeless dimension. Through his quest for accuracy, Seydou Keïta seems intuitively to have reinvented the art of the portrait. At a time of interest in other cultures, this work of rare beauty takes a deserved place in the world history of photgraphy.--Book jacket.
Notes: "Contemporary African Art Collection."

Edited by Andre Magnin