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This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the great Malian photographer Seydou Ke鮠a, one of the most important portraitists of the 20th century
Seydou Ke鮠a's photographs capture Malian culture during an era of radical transformation. Working as a commercial portrait photographer, he employed backdrops and props--including cars, Vespas and European clothing and accessories--that allowed sitters to construct new identities before the camera's lens. His strikingly intimate photographs showcase his ability to draw out detail and emotion from his subjects and resonate with audiences across geographic and cultural borders.
At first practicing by photographing his friends and family, Ke鮠a later opened his own photographic studio in downtown Bamako in 1948, one of the first in the city. His clientele were primarily middle-class residents. Ke鮠a kept a selection of fashionable props that customers could pose with, as if their own, against bold patterned backgrounds. At the time, Ke鮠a's portraiture was intimately connected to ideas of modernity; his studio became a place to explore new ways of fashioning the self.
This groundbreaking publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, draws on photography, personal ephemera and textiles to explore the social and political realities of the period. Richly illustrated and supported with texts from leading scholars and writers, this book is the essential volume on Seydou Ke鮠a.
Born in Bamako, Mali, Seydou Ke鮠a (1921/23-2001) spent his youth working as a carpenter, following in the footsteps of his father. However, after receiving a Kodak Brownie Flash camera as a gift from his uncle in 1935, Ke鮠a shifted his focus to photography. In 1948 he opened his studio in downtown Bamako, making portraits of thousands of Malians over more than a decade. After Mali gained independence in 1962, Ke鮠a was hired as the new government's official photographer. His work was not well known outside of Western Africa until 1991, when a selection of his studio portraits were exhibited, albeit anonymously, in New York City.
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