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Seydou Keïta was a Malian photographer known for his black-and-white portraits of friends, family, and neighbors. View Seydou Keïta’s 440 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.
Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.
Seydou Keïta nasceu no Mali, em 1921. Filho mais velho de um fabricante de móveis, ... Bamako. Logo, tornou-se um fotógrafo bastante concorrido e o carimbo “Photo KEITA” virou símbolo de status. Nos retratos, uma mistura de símbolos culturais, como as diferentes padronagens de tecidos das roupas, com influências do estilo ocidental, ...
31 de mar. de 2016 · Seydou Keïta (1921-2001) is now considered one of the greatest photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Showing off his subjects to best advantage, his mastery of framing and light and the modernity and inventiveness of his compositions all earned him a huge success. He retired in 1977 after having been the official photographer of a Mali that had become independent.
It signifies Seydou Keïta’s presence and defines the women as Bamakoises enjoying a picnic. Here, as elsewhere, the curtain allows Keïta to create a sense of domesticated space, a studio effect. No set of portraits show off the mythical beauty of the Bamakoises to better effect than those that feature a woman in a reclining pose on the bed in the studio.
11 de dic. de 2023 · Seydou Keita, ici en compagnie d’Adaa Coulibaly son compatriote malien, lors du match perdu à Troyes qui a décidé de son départ de l’Artois. PHOTO ARCHIVES LA VOIX DU NORD - VDNPQR.
Seydou Keïta arbeitete von 1948 bis 1962 als selbstständiger Fotograf im malischen Bamako. Sein Studio gehörte zusammen mit dem des etwas jüngeren Malick Sidibé zu den populärsten der Stadt. Samstags hätten die Leute sogar Schlange gestanden, erzählt Keïta. Etwa 30.000 Porträts fertigte er in seinem Leben an.
